Violence and Necropolitics in Bacurau: decolonization processes and counterculture echoes

processos de descolonização e ecos da contracultura

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2021.v8.35360

Abstract

The article seeks to understand how the categories of necropolitics and decolonization, based mainly on Achille Mbembe (2019) and Frantz Fanon (1961), appear in Bacurau (2019), a film by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. For this, we discuss how violence is a founding factor of the subjectivities of individuals in the film, while offering the possibility of emancipation. In addition, we try to elucidate how the appropriation of certain signs of genres established in Hollywood are mobilized as a tool for subversion of an idea of hegemonic cinema, together with the presence of characters that flee from an “ideal” of national narrative, by mobilizing the discussions of Lúcia Monteiro (2016) and Ivana Bentes (2007). Finally, we debate how the film recovers certain aspects of Brazilian counterculture as a possibility of escaping to a hegemonic order.

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Author Biographies

Thiago Gomes, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Thiago Henrique Fernandes Leão Gomes – Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Graduado em Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP).

Cláudio Rodrigues Coração, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e do curso de Jornalismo da Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP). Doutor em Comunicação: meios e processos audiovisuais pela ECA/USP. Coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa ‘Quintais: cultura da mídia, arte e política’ (CNPq-UFOP).

Published

2022-03-21