O negro nos primórdios do cinema brasileiro: uma abordagem entre a literatura e a imprensa

Abstract

This essay will approach three language manifestations: Literature, Printing Press and Cinema. Although these languages are diverse, they influenced one another at the end of the XIX (nineteenth) and beginning of the XX (twentieth) centuries, that is, at the moment cinematographer has one come out. To demonstrate such impulses in this period we will point out two black personalities who performed important roles to the consolidation of Brazilian Cinematographer and stood out from Literature or in national Printing Press as well: João do Rio and Benjamim de Oliveira.