BACURAU: Uma Interpretação Contemporânea da Resistência no Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation arose from the desire to analyze dissident characters from the hegemonic culture, focusing on the transits and femininities present in fictional and documentary Brazilian film productions, questioning how film production, as a language that produces discourses, enunciates marginalized bodies and adds to the struggle by representation in these productions. Thus, the choice was made for the cinematographic work BACURAU (2019) with a motivating aspect, observing how the arrangement of narrative and formal elements of cinema, produced dissident bodies throughout its history. We propose, as a mode of operation, the methodology in a filmic analysis of the characters Lunga, Domingas and Tereza, which allows multiple perspectives to question the approach of transits and femininities in Brazilian cinema. The takes take place through the technical composition of the film (photography, camera plan and depth, editing, sound) and the analysis of the research subjects (dialogue with Cultural Studies, feminism, gender, sexuality and identity). Therefore, the subjects are contextualized in a social space-time (the period in which the cinematographic work was released) to assimilate the representations on screen and the importance they play in diffusing gender, sexuality and identity in the cinematographic scope. Therefore, the research highlights the marginality of a certain portion of the Brazilian population, especially blacks, Northeasterners, women and the LGBTQIA+ population, in addition to the epistemological violence faced through the resistance of the characters proposed in the work.