Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

by Antônio Márcio da Silva (Editor), Mariana Cunha (Editor)

Overview

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium. The chapters take spatiality as a powerful tool that can reveal aesthetic, political, social, and historical meanings of the cinematographic image instead of considering space as just a formal element of a film. From the rich cross-fertilization of different theories and disciplines, this edited collection engages with the connection between space and subjectivity in Brazilian cinema while raising new questions concerning spatiality and subjectivity in cinema and providing new models and tools for film analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319482675
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	08/12/2017
Series:	Screening Spaces
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	947 KB

About the Author

Antônio Márcio da Silva currently teaches at the University of Surrey, UK. His publications include The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms (Palgrave 2014), contributions to the edited collections Directory of World Cinema: Brazil and World Film Locations: São Paulo and a number of articles.

Mariana Cunha is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, where she is currently developing a research project on the relationship between landscape and embodiment in contemporary world cinema. She has taught Brazilian studies at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Territorialization and Marginal Subjectivities

Chapter 2: Tikmũ’ũn’s Caterpillar-Cinema: Off-screen Space and Cosmopolitics in Amerindian Films

Chapter 3: The Reterritorializations of Urban Space in Brazilian Cinema

Chapter 4: Mapping from the Margins: The Films of Beto Brant

Part II: Intensive Space, Landscape and Spatial Experience

Chapter 5: Bodies in Landscape: The Scientist’s Presence in Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo and Ventos de agosto

Chapter 6: Intensive Spatium and the Construction of Child Subjectivities in Brazilian Cinema

Part III: Utopia, Memory and Urban Architecture

Chapter 7: Insolação: Subjective Perception of an Urban Utopia through the Lens of Love and Loss

chapter 8: astral cities, new selves: utopian subjectivities in Nosso Lar and Branco sai, preto fica

Chapter 9: Underneath the Surface, Embodied on Screen: Memory and Social Conflict in São Paulo’s Cityscape

Part IV: Queering Spaces

Chapter 10: The Space of Queer Masculinities in Karim Aïnouz’s Praia do Futuro

Chapter 11: Water and Queer Intimacy

Part V: Domestic Spaces and Social Differences

Chapter 12: ‘Casa grande & senzala’: Domestic Space and Class Conflict in Casa grande and Que horas ela volta?

Chapter 13: O som ao redor: Aural Space, Surveillance, and Class Struggle

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The organization of this book constitutes a sophisticated understanding of the principles of film as significant cultural production in contemporary Brazil and very much a privileged domain of contemporary Brazilian art. It provides a comprehensive multi-authored volume of essays contemporary Brazilian filmmaking, focused on the point of view of space and subjectivity. It is an excellent book.” (David William Foster, Regents’ Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, USA)