Representation of progress and foundation of cine Ipiranga: the screening rooms as evidences of the economic development and the increase of the number of viewers at the cinemas of Montes Claros - MG (1929-1948)

Abstract

The concept of representation helps understanding social tangles which have enabled the consolidation of the cinema circuit of Montes Claros (MG), inasmuch it allows us to evaluate the symbolic domination performed and supported by groups and social actors of that city. By intermediation of the cinema and the inauguration of the movie theaters (Cine Ipiranga), altogether with the reforms and installations of modern movie projectors, the representations of the progress in Montes Claros (MG) became operative and active. Thus, according to newspaper reports, the cinema established a rate of concepts as "modern, civilized progress" and has also been a means of evaluation of the city as a "northern metropolis", a "northeastern metropolis”, a “cultured society”.