Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes

Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes , also Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes , (born December 17, 1916 in São Paulo , Brazil , † September 9, 1977 ibid) was a Brazilian historian , film critic and politician in the resistance .

Life

Gomes took an active part in the political and cultural life of his hometown as a teenager. After 1935 he took part in the resistance against Getúlio Vargas ' dictatorship , was arrested in 1936, but was later able to escape and flee to Europe.

After his return due to the outbreak of the Second World War , he enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). In 1941 he founded the country's first film club, which was later taken over by the Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda , the state press and propaganda department. He organized and directed the film library of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo , which 10 years later became the Cinemateca Brasileira . He was also a contributor to the magazine Clima , in which some of São Paulo’s future art and literary critics participated.

In 1946, at the invitation of the French government , Gomes went to study in France. In the 1960s he organized various film shows in Brazil, which were later expanded to become the Festival de Brasilia de Cinema Brasileiro . In 1965 he carried out the first course in cinematography at the University of Brasília , but this was discontinued due to the arrest of some of the professors during the military dictatorship . In 1968 he was appointed professor of film history at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes at the USP.

Gomes was the second husband of the writer Lygia Fagundes Telles . His only novel Três Mulheres De Três PPPes was published in 1977, shortly before his death, by Editora Nova Fronteira in Rio de Janeiro .

plant

• Três mulheres de três PPPes . Editora Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro 1977.
  • as the original edition: The three women by P. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12188-4 .
• Humberto Mauro , Cataguases, cinearte . Editora Perspectiva, São Paulo 1974.
• with others: Glauber Rocha . Paz e Terra, Rio de Janeiro 1977.
• Cinema, trajetória no subdesenvolvimiento . Paz e Terra EMBRA FILMS, Rio de Janeiro 1980.
• Jean Vigo . University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1971, ISBN 0-520-01676-9 .
  • Revised edition: Faber & Faber, London 1998, ISBN 0-571-19610-1 .
• Cimitério . Editora Cosac Naify, Rio de Janeiro 2007, ISBN 978-85-7503531-3 .

literature

• Lygia Fagundes Telles: Capitu. Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes , about the author by his wife. CosacNaify, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2008, ISBN 978-85-7503715-7 .