Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film (eBook)

Jeremy Lehnen (Autor)

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2025
268 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
978-1-68340-563-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Analyzing how masculinity is portrayed in Brazilian crime film, connecting movie messages to twenty-first-century issuesAn incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues. Jeremy Lehnen argues that these films promote an agenda in support of the nations recent swing toward authoritarianism that culminated in the 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.Lehnen examines the integral role of masculinity in several archetypal crime films, most of which foreground urban violence, including Cidade de Deus, Quase Dois Irmos, Tropa de Elite, O Homem do Ano, and O Doutrinador. Within these films, Lehnen finds representations that criminalize the poor, marginalized male; emasculate the civilian middle-class male intellectual, casting him as unable to respond to crime; and portray state security as the only power able to stem increasing crime rates.Drawing on insights from masculinity studies, Lehnen contends that Brazilian crime films are ideologically charged mediums that assert and normalize the presence of the neo-authoritarian male within society. This book demonstrates how gendered scripts can become widely accepted by audiences and contribute to very real power structures beyond the sphere of cinema.A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Hctor Fernndez LHoeste and Juan Carlos RodrguezPublication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
• Schlagworte: authoritarian • Brazil • Brazilian crime films • Brazilian Culture • brazilian history • Cidade de Deus • Class • crime films • Crime Genre • Culture • Democracy • Far Right • Film History • Gender Studies • Jair Bolsonaro • lower class • Male Representation • masculine aesthetics • Masculinity • middle class • neo-authoritarianism • O Doutrinador • O Homen do Ano • Political Power Structure • Quase Dois Irmãos • Race • Social hierarchy • sociopolitical issues • The 1988 Citizen Constitution • Tropa de Elite
• ISBN-10: 1-68340-563-3 / 1683405633
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68340-563-4 / 9781683405634