Abstract

In the context of a growing interest in the investigation and rescue of different places occupied by women in the history of cinema, this paper proposes the specific consideration of one of its pioneers in Brazil: filmmaker, writer and lyric singer Gilda de Abreu (1904 - 1979), screenwriter and director of three feature films made between the ‘40s and’ 50s of the twentieth century. From the consideration of selected excerpts from the films O Ébrio (1946), Pinguinho de Gente (1949) and Coração materno (1951), this paper aims not only to contribute to a desired visibility of the trajectory of the artist - fundamental to a necessary revisionism of the history of cinema - but also to promote a close look at the audiovisual elements of these films capable of calling the debate about the very notion of an authorship in the feminine at the moment when such works were made.