A chegada do Cine Irís e as mutações visíveis, sensíveis e imaginárias de Nova Floresta (1959-1989).

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the memories and social and emotional experiences of the residents of Flores, which took place in the space that corresponded to the Cine Íris in Nova Floresta, Curimatáu, Paraíba, from 1959 to 1989. We are interested in understanding how the specific sociabilities attributed to this important cinematic space occurred, from the meetings, walks, flirting and courtships that took place on the sidewalk of the cinema, to the certain highly successful film projections that were shown inside the Cine Íris, in addition to their influence on the ways of acting and behaving of its spectators. Based on Pesavento's (2017) concept of sensitive cities, we find the need to understand several complex issues, especially those peculiar to this and other spaces intended for the practice of leisure in Nova Floresta during the period studied. Urban transformations and modern devices such as cinema appear as common objects in the history and daily life of most cities. However, it is the historian's primary role and the objective of this study, as it gave rise to this process of operation of Cine Íris, as a space for leisure and entertainment and the changes in the daily lives of the city dwellers who frequented the space, and how these city dwellers saw, felt and what they said about cinema, through their memories, and contribution from the oral source, based on the perspectives and primary contributions of Alberti (2005), to history. The work also aims to understand how the arrival of cinema in a city of the past, which differed in many aspects from the current one, was conceived, its persistence was felt and the habit of frequenting this space for leisure and socializing was managed. In this way, we analyze cinema based on the conception of Certeau (1998), in which individuals often invent new uses for an imposed place, thus adapting their own path.