Considering that, from an anthropological approach, movies contain interesting elements for studying a society - values, beliefs, ideology - this talk focuses on the questions laid out by the Brazilian cinema: identity issues, History and memory depiction as well as symbolic landscapes - such as the sertaoand slums - that put into perspective the social exclusion issue. 

Erika Thomas was born in 1964 in Brazil. She settled in France in the 1980s, obtaining her PhD in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (Paris 3, 2001) and her HDR (Habilitation) in anthroplogy of media (Strasbourg, 2011). She is Professor at the Lille-based Université Catholique de Lille, and an associate member of the Research Institute in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (IRCAV) at Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has also taught at Université Paris 3 and Universidade Estadual do Ceara (Forteza, Brazil). Her main research domains include: images, history, and society, cinema and television and telenovelas (transdisciplinary approach) in Brazilian society.

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