Macunaíma e a experiência de vanguarda no modernismo literário e no cinema novo

Abstract

Taking Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma – published in 1928 – and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade’s homonymous film – released in 1969 – as a starting point, we try and understand how early XX century vanguard esthetical movements influence the writer’s work, as well as how the director’s film adaptation relates to the 1970’s vanguard’s discourse. Besides approaching the literary work and its new elaboration in the cinematographic level, we equally search to analyze the way their respective construction processes involve a complex relation between popular culture and modernist rupture discourse. The reading of these works contributes for the opening of a critical horizon concerning the vanguard language in the XX century Brazilian literature and cinema.