Re-creating the Favela in O homem que copiava by Jorge Furtado
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18979587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur J Hughes (corresponding author), Arthur Hughes (0000-0001-9724-7402) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-77 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lar.2012.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W1984984880 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The Brazilian film director Jorge Furtado’s O homem que copiava centers on two plots, both based on accepted social discourses: how to escape lower-middle-class poverty; and the perennial question of the obstacles to love. These two plots are intertwined when the love quest is made to depend on the former, that is, when success in love is predicated on success in social mobility. However, in making the film’s protagonist black, Furtado inserts the question of race into these two discourses and highlights the discursive absence of race in dealing with the problems of poverty and race relations. The film underscores the role of education and the discursive implications of social representation in excluding marginalized groups from social mobility while exploring the underside of the mestiçagem myth, the role of race in the question of national identity
Aesthetics · Art · Humanities · Identity (music) · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Race (biology) · Representation (politics) · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |