Fascistas à Mesa: uma análise comparativa das figuras do fascismo no audiovisual

Abstract

This study critically analyzes figurations of fascism in audiovisual projects, focusing on mainstream works released between 1990 and 2023. Through the articulation of the warburgian method – by means of assembling imagetical constellation-maps – with the concept of “figures” in film theory, we sought to investigate how certain images of fascism survive in the globalized collective imagination. The analyses centered on seven audiovisual objects: Schindler’s List (1993), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009), Inglorious Basterds (2009), Jojo Rabbit (2019), The Boys (2019) e Zone of Interest (2023), and demonstrate the recurrence of figures which frequently detach fascism from its historical and ideological materialities, hindering its recognition in the present. At the end, we highlight how some works, notably, Zone of Interest, propose other forms of representation which tension the dominant visibility regimes and insinuate possibilities for resistance.