ASPECTS OF THE EXHIBITION CIRCUIT OF MONTES CLAROS (MG, BRAZIL): THE CROWNING OF THE REPRESENTATION OF PROGRESS THROUGH THE OPENING OF CINE FÁTIMA (1960)

o coroamento da representação de progresso mediante a inauguração do Cine Fátima (1960)

Abstract

Studies on the exhibiting circuit in Brazil have become urgent. Its genesis and consolidation indicate that different variables permeated its configuration in different Brazilian cities and, especially, in the municipality of Montes Claros (MG), between the years of 1900 and 1960. In this way, the concept of representation helps understanding social tangles that have enabled the consolidation of the cinema circuit of Montes Claros (MG). This concept allows us to evaluate the symbolic domination performed and supported by groups and social actors of that city. The representations of progress in Montes Claros (MG) had been activated by the relationship between cinema and the opening of a movie theater (Cine Fátima), within reforms and installation of modern movie projectors. Thus, according to newspaper reports, cinema had established a rate of concepts as "modern", "civilized", "progress." Cinema had also been the basis to evaluate the city as being a "northern metropolis", a "northeastern metropolis”, a “civilized/cultivated society.”