School Cinema as Birthplace of Entertainment

Abstract

The article presented here intends to bring up the historical formation process of a specific model of addressing the movies. To the contrary to what we tend to assume at first glance, this paper seeks to argue, especially from Foucault’s theories, as the emergence of entertainment cinema cannot be explained to the satisfaction solely by the dictates and demands of economic developments, because it was inseparable from schooling of cinema that occurred in the Brazilian and Portuguese school, at least since the mid-1930s.