(2015-06) Amaral, Janaynne Carvalho do; Fernandes, Ana Rita Vidica
This communication aims to describe and to reflect on the Art Direction applied to
the process of adaptation and production of the photo narrative Clandestine Happiness from a scene
of the work Broderies by the Iranian Marjane Satrapi. To do so, biographic data and aesthetic
aspects of the author were analyzed, as well as concepts about the language of comics, photography
and theatre. As a case study, this communication highlights the contrast between the perception of
the feminine universe in the Western and in the Middle East through a technical and aesthetical
analysis. The production of photo novels in the 1960’s Grande Hotel Magazine was studied
together with the drawings of Marjane Satrapi. We review the expressive potential of the photo
novel, qualified in this context as photo narrative, questioning the prejudice in both gender and
vision of the Iranian culture and women’s role.