Cinema and historiography: trajectory of a historiographical object (1971-2010)

Abstract

This article seeks to highlight how the traditional historiography has included cinema among its objects of research through an ambiguous dialogue with the film studies, and through the direct exclusion of film history. It is followed by the inclusion of cinema among the objects of the French and Brazilian historiography, the domestication of films in the historiographical operation, and the survival of the early milestones for its inclusion in the current moment of the researches, as well as the most important shifts in the past ten years. We will observe some aspects of the history of the constitution of cinema as a historiographical object, proposing at the end a systematic dialogue with the theory of history, and with the film history itself.