A redemocratização do riso: as charges da grande Imprensa na reabertura política (1979-1985).

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the cartoons produced by the major press during the last military government in the country (1979-1985). the criterion for the choice of periodicals was the support of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship in its early years. To this end, the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, O Jornal do Brasil and Veja magazine were selected and analyzed through their digital collections. The acid, political or personal critique that the drawings bring with simplicity and creativity represents the record of a protest that can be formal and at the same time relaxed, reaches the masses and is in most cases democratic in this laughter, that is, their expectation is make it easy to understand the most diverse layers of society. The first field of analysis encompasses discussions of concepts such as representation and comic, understanding these definitions, begins the analysis of political cartoons. In a second moment, certain themes and historical landmarks like social movements, economic crisis, and censorship are observed, as they were portrayed in this graphical humor of the great press. And in the third field I try to show the themes of Brazilian politics addressed in the process and reopening and the end of the civil-military dictatorship in the country with the indirect election of a civilian president.