O Jazz e o Cinema pela análise da trajetória de Miles Davis no documentário Miles Davis: birth of the cool

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to focus on the documentary Miles Davis birth of the cool, by director Stanley Nelson, as a corpus and as a guiding line of the text. The problematizing demonstrates whether the visual discourse of the film with its soundtrack could portray the trajectory and relevance of the trumpeter in its various phases. The achieved objectives include the montage of the documentary in its relevant aspects in relation to verisimilitude and veracity by revealing the historical perspective of the musical work. Another relevant aspect is the emphasis on the biographical version of Miles Davis in his depression phases and the creation of new derivatives of the jazz, such as bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, orchestral jazz, avant bop and jazz rock. There is also the argument that director Stanley Nelson demonstrates according to the perspective of film critics and musicians from the jazz scene who witness the complements that Miles Davis presented throughout his life. Chapter 1 focuses on Miles Davis trajectory in the history of jazz, while Chapter 2 analyzes the film through concepts and theories of documentary and biographical documentary, and Chapter 3 emphasizes the collective dimension of Miles Davis in the film, based in his autobiography written with Quincy Troupe. The theoretical framework includes concepts and/or points of view on autobiographical and biographical documentary by Bill Nichols, Debora Opolski, Denize Araujo, Eduardo Baggio, Fernando Andacht, Fernão Ramos, Manuela Penafria, Noel Carroll and Philippe Lejeune.