Public images filmed

the politics of contraries in the documentary 'O processo'

Abstract

The study deals with the documentary O processo (Maria Augusta Ramos; Brazil, 2018); the analysis focus on the way certain public images were filmed during Dilma Rousseff's impeachment; framing contraries and contradictories instances, verbal and imagetic discourses organize peculiar ways of showing Brazilian politics on the scene. The re-apresentation of the public image in the film reveals that in order to gain control in the given context, a specific social image needs another one to be presented as a counterpoint.