Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (Screening Spaces)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Antônio Márcio da Silva, Mariana Cunha)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Tikmũ’ũn’s Caterpillar-Cinema: Off-Screen Space and Cosmopolitics in Amerindian Film (André Brasil)....Pages 23-39 The Reterritorializations of Urban Space in Brazilian Cinema (Eduardo de Jesus)....Pages 41-58 Mapping from the Margins: The Films of Beto Brant (Maurício Sellmann Oliveira)....Pages 59-74 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 Bodies in Landscape: The Scientist’s Presence in Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo and Ventos De Agosto (Mariana Cunha)....Pages 77-95 Intensive Spatium and the Construction of Child Subjectivities in Brazilian Cinema (Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Amorim, Marcus Pereira Novaes)....Pages 97-114 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 Insolação: Subjective Perception of an Urban Utopia Through the Lens of Love and Loss (Leticia Colnago)....Pages 117-132 Astral Cities, New Selves: Utopian Subjectivities in Nosso Lar and Branco Sai, Preto Fica (Antonio Cordoba)....Pages 133-147 Underneath the Surface, Embodied on Screen: Memory and Social Conflict in São Paulo’s Cityscape (Marília Goulart)....Pages 149-166 Front Matter ....Pages 167-167 The Space of Queer Masculinities in Karim Aïnouz’s Praia Do Futuro (Simone Cavalcante da Silva)....Pages 169-183 Water and Queer Intimacy (Fernando G. Pagnoni Berns)....Pages 185-200 Front Matter ....Pages 201-201 ‘Casa Grande & Senzala’: Domestic Space and Class Conflict in Casa Grande and Que Horas Ela Volta? (Tiago de Luca)....Pages 203-219 O Som Ao Redor: Aural Space, Surveillance, and Class Struggle (Patricia Sequeira Brás)....Pages 221-233 Back Matter ....Pages 235-244 Antônio Márcio Da Silva, Mariana Cunha, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References, Filmography (pages 235-238), And Index.