The art about football and its possibility for revealing social drama

Abstract

In the social sciences, the English school of anthropology developed studies that observed performance, describing behaviors and actions that portray social life, with a special look at ritual. By highlighting the ritual, the dramatization of the social dimension becomes an important concept for analyzing human groups. In Brazil, anthropologist Roberto DaMatta, using Victor Turner’s theoretical framework, analyzed various events that describe the social drama. These events include the military parade, carnival, religious celebrations and football. To discuss the importance of the work of anthropologist Roberto DaMatta, the purpose of the text is to carry out a descriptive analysis of two film works about Brazilian football, the films: Boleiros I – era uma vez o futebol (1998) – (Soccer players I – once upon a time there was soccer); and, Boleiros II – vencedores e vencidos (2006) – (Soccer players II – winners and losers (2006)), by director Ugo Giorgetti. When analyzing the two nominated films, we realized from the concepts and categories listed by DaMatta that dramaturgy, as art, by proposing to reproduce the social dimension, exposes the dramas of a society that preserves aristocratic values from a recent past.

Submission: May 13, 2024 ⊶ Accepted: June 19, 2024