New formats, old discourses: representations of surfing in Brazilian cinema (1991-2006)Abstract
This article aims to analyze the five Brazilian films released in commercial cinemas and / or festivals between 1991 and 2006, featuring surfing as the main theme: Radical Maneuver (Elisa Tolomelli, 1991), Surf Adventures - The Movie (Arthur Sources , 2001), Fabio Fabulous (Pedro Cezar, Ricardo Bocão and Antonio Ricardo, 2004), Indo.doc (Leondre Campos and Andre Pires, 2006) and Tow In Surfing (Jorge Guimarães and Rosaldo Cavalcanti, 2006). The purpose is to understand the new representations of the sport, a decade after the first boom in Brazilian film, which happened in the 1980´s. The conclusion is that, immersed in new business networks, surfing is definitely more professional, although the productions do try to keep, at least in discourse, values which were typical of the 1980's.
Cinema; Surfing; Brazil; Culture; Youth