Abstract
The development of approaches around ideology functioning, discourse, and subjectivity converged into the cinematographic studies in the 1970s, in France and Great Britain. Such development and convergence happened with the political engagement of intellectuals, starting from the influence of Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan. This retrospective brings back one of the most important perspectives in the Cinematographic Studies, the Screen Theory, which emerges from the aforementioned decade through the ideas of two Screen Magazine editors, Colin MacCabe and Stephen Heath. In this theory it is made explicit the influence of the French philosopher Michel Pêcheux and the consequences of his "subject position" in Screen Theory’s theoretical debates. The re-evaluation of Lacan's Other and Althusser's Universal Subject, and its development into Pêcheux's "subject position" concept, are paramount contributions to the Brazilian materialistic perspective of discursivities.
Keywords:
Film discourse analysis; Michel Pêcheux; Colin MacCabe; Stephen Heath; Screen Theory