As faces do Edifício Master: um estudo sobre faces em entrevistas de cinema documentário

Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyze problems related to the preservation and the threat of faces on interviews made for film documentary. For the development of the research, we selected a corpus composed of fifteen interviews which can be found within the documentary film Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) and we sought to ascertain how the participants of the film selected defend and/or threat their faces, taking into consideration the singularity of the interaction s situation involved: the presence of cameras, future projection on a large scale, interlocutors interacting as "actors" of a film etc. Based on a socio-interactionist approach, the analysis started from a theoretical framework based mainly on the theories of Conversation Analysis and Pragmatics Linguistics. From these theories some of the needed subsidies were withdrawn, respectively, for the analysis of the characteristics that specify interview genus and, in particular, the documentary film interviews, and also for understanding the concept of face and other concepts derived from it. The analysis of the research s material has shown that for the construction, preservation and threat of their faces, the interviewees from the Edifício Master faced a dilemma in which their self-image, possibly valued in the social group they are part of, get into a conflict with the image they built to give strength to the character they represent in the film. The interactions made by the participants of the documentary will, therefore, seek for a balance between the roles they play in society and the roles they play in the film. The specificities of the selected corpus brought to light some elements that were not listed in most daily interactions, showing potential for further investigation and thus justifying the study