Gender representations in the kitsch universe of Renata Pinheiro’s Amor, plástico e barulho

Authors

  • Alberto Inacio da Silva Université Paris-Sorbonne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i33.140255

Keywords:

Brazilian cinema, kitsch, gender representation, tacky

Abstract

Almost always associated to the popular culture, the kitsch has an important place in the Brazilian society. If that aesthetics influences the music and the television, the filmmakers sought in the kitsch not just strategies to attract the public, but also to rethink the politics in some important moments of the Brazilian history. In this article, we propose an analysis of the film Amor, plástico e barulho (2013) by Renata Pinheiro. In this movie, Renata Pinheiro brings us to the universe of the peripheries of Recife through the dreams and the disillusions of Shelly and Jaqueline, two dancers / singers of the group Brega Show. In her mise en scène, Renata Pinheiro adopts a kitsch aesthetics, approaching those characters' universe and revealing all the complexities of the social relationships of class and gender in the Brazilian society.

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Author Biography

  • Alberto Inacio da Silva, Université Paris-Sorbonne

    professor na Universidade Paris-Sorbonne e membro do Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains (CRIMIC). Publicou Genre et Dictature dans le Cinéma Brésilien (2016) pela Éditions Hispaniques e é autor de vários artigos sobre a cultura brasileira, as representações de género e as representações do espaço e das cidades no cinema e na literatura.

Via Atlântica nº 33

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Published

2018-09-11

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2018): Dossier 33 - Queering the luso-african-brazilian canon

Section

Dossiê 33: Queerizar o cânone luso-afro-brasileiro

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How to Cite

SILVA, Alberto Inacio da. Gender representations in the kitsch universe of Renata Pinheiro’s Amor, plástico e barulho. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 19, n. 1, p. 365–378, 2018. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i33.140255. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/140255.. Acesso em: 1 jun. 2024.