Visões e construções sobre povo e raça no campo cinematográfico brasileiro dos anos 1950: as teses de Solano Trindade e de Nelson Pereira dos Santos

<p>This article aims to address two thesis presented in the Congress of the Brazilian Film in the 1950s to relate them to the beggining of formation of the Brazilian cinematographic field. More precisely, we will analyze <em>Folclore e Cinema</em>, thesis defended by Solano Trindade in the <em>I Congresso Nacional do Cinema Brasileiro</em>; and <em>O problema do conteúdo no cinema brasileiro</em>, presented by Nelson Pereira dos Santos in the <em>I Congresso Paulista do Cinema Brasileiro</em>. From them, we will analyze which images of Brazilian people these thesis articulated in their defenses. Our hypothesis is that, in order to use Gilberto Freyre’s ideas, these intellectuals chose the image of the Brazilian people as a racially, ethnically and culturally heterogeneous people, but in the process of integration. This is not to say that they only reproduce these ideas, but actively used in shaping the <em>habitus</em> of cinematographic field at that time.</p><p>