THE DOCUMENTARY MAIORIA ABSOLUTA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL-POPULAR

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze Leon Hirszman's short documentary Absolute Majority from a historiographical perspective, seeking to relate this production to the discourse associated with a well-defined ideological position: the communist political culture and the representations of the national-popular. Produced on the eve of the civil-military coup, Absolute Majority brings reflections on issues of great projection in the period, linked to the Basic Reforms, directing the narrative to the social reality representation of rural illiterate people from Northeastern Brazil. Absolute Majority is a film that reflects the ideals present in the generation of communist cultural producers of the early 1960s and contains images and representations that characterize national-popular discourse.