The representation of authoritarian violence in Brazilian cinema
The objective of this essay is to develop the concept of “authoritarian violence” in an analysis of some key texts within the discipline of Political Science and two films: A Cidade de Deus and Tropa de Elite. I analyze the central role that violence plays in the modern st...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repository: | Literatura e Autoritarismo |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/74655 |
| Online Access: | http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/74655 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Authoritarianism Violence Narration Democracy Fragmentation Autoritarismo Violência Narração Democracia Fragmentação |
| Summary: | The objective of this essay is to develop the concept of “authoritarian violence” in an analysis of some key texts within the discipline of Political Science and two films: A Cidade de Deus and Tropa de Elite. I analyze the central role that violence plays in the modern state through a discussion of how violence is conceived by Max Weber, Guillermo O’Donnell, Sergio Buarque de Hollanda and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. After forming the concept of authoritarian violence, I show how the concept appears in the films Cidade de Deus and Tropa de Elite, and furthermore, how first person narration represents how authoritarian violence entails the fragmentation of Brazilian society. I also describe how the phenomenon of fragmentation is not something necessarily lamentable, but entails a kind of democratization, in so far as the power to narrate and represent one’s own position in society reveals the possibilities for politics, and thus, for change. |
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