Nordeste viril: representações da masculinidade no Cinema brasileiro sob o olhar de Guel Arraes (2000-2003)

Abstract

The present dissertation is linked to research line Teaching of History and Historical Knowledge with the area of concentration in History and Historical Culture, the PPGH-UFPB. The culture sometimes moves the society, sometimes it is moved, what causes some of our cultural practices legitimize objects, images and speeches. In this way, the film, as one of the possibilities of the manifestation of the historical culture uses it to produce and legitimise representations that affirm or deny identities. Within these representations found in the northeastern‟s man. Some of these representations we created the imaginary of the northeast is a human rude and truculent member and this took us to build a way of thinking about their masculinity, devoted, especially in the figure of the "goat-male". This work has as proposal addressing how this representation acts through buildings, or even, deconstructions of a masculine culture, entered with the dialectics of power and domination. The research in this theme seeks understand how the "naturalization" in cinema of the maleness/northeastern is strictly related to signs associated with the Northeast, as its landscape, associated with the hardness and the aridity, which thus will establishing the image of the region and corroborating with the construction of the popular imagination. The cultural representation to the man in northeastern cinema will thus weaving multiple realities, traditions and identities that are delineated in historic construct cultural.-space