VIOLÊNCIAS E SUBJETIVIDADES NO CINEMA BRASILEIRO SUBALTERNO CONTEMPORÂNEO

Abstract

This piece of work intends to analyse the constructions of violence and its relations with prison and drug dealing on the films Arábia (2017), by Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans, and A vizinhança do tigre (2014), also by Affonso Uchoa, opposing the cinema production of Retomada and Pós-retomada, in the late 1990s and beginning of the 2000s. To do so, we will be using the genealogical method elaborated by Michel Foucault (2016), which shows categories for the analysis inside and outside of the film, articulating the micro record of audiovisual media and its conditions of historical-political possibilities. The unfoldings of the research result in the identification of the differences in the approach of the violence shown in the films while comparing with a production from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The building of the idea of prison in Arabia, just like in A vizinhança do tigre doesn't focus on the physical violence, such as in Carandiru, by Hector Babenco and Notícias de uma guerra particular (1999), by João Moreira Salles and Kátia Lund, for example, but has as a main subject the dayto-day relations, such as work, play time and the relationship with family and friends. Through the analysis of the films and their conditions of historical possibilities, we conclude that they detach from the violence appeal given to the poorest parts of town in the previous decade, to show the character´s strategies of life before the violent struction of power, having the day-today fight to survive as the main theme for the films.