Corpo e expressividade no cinema de Charles Chaplin: notas sobre o conhecimento da Educação Física

Abstract

Cinema exhibits the movement of the body, affects our perception, takes us in a vertigo and produces an evolvement of ourselves with the camera on action. Movie has the capacity of taking us to other worlds, emotions, realities and moments; as spectators, we see cinema as a way of reflecting on several situations, be they real or imaginary. The objective of this paper is to establish relations between body and expressiveness as it appears in Chaplin‟s films as a resort to understand the aesthetic knowledge in Physical Education. The research method relies on the phenomenological attitude proposed by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Thus, we enrich the living experience with reduction and movement intentionality. In this sense, we evaluated two works realized by Charles Chaplin: Modern Times (1936) and The Circus (1928). In field contents, we describe some aspects relating to corporal perception, drivability and expressiveness. In this perspective, we developed other ways of thinking Physical Education and valuing the body power of creation and re-creation while interpreting movement in its more diversified forms.