Abstract
Built from concepts, signs, symbols, and material and immaterial relationships, costumes present an arsenal of information about staging. The costume designer works an object that will dress the body and help it to compose the visual aspect of the scene at hand. This article is a study of the visual construction and costumes of Capitu, the famous character from Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, in the miniseries of the same name broadcast by Globo TV and directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Capitu, 2008). Through this work we will reflect upon costume designer Beth Filipecki’s process in constructing and settling on the image of Capitu we see. This was achieved by conducting a two-part interview (2013) that used the methodology known as Underlying Discourse Unveiling Method – UDUM, an interview format adapted for specific qualitative narrative research, which, besides giving rise to a construction of continuous thoughts in the answers, provides a better notion of both its implicit and explicit discourses. Besides the information presented here, these occasions afforded the collecting of images from Filipecki’s personal archive and pieces from Filipecki’s personal archives were photographed and used in the miniseries.
Costume design; Visual construction; Capitu; Dom Casmurro; Machado de Assis
