The Ambiguities of Bacurau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21320529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcelo Gil Ikeda (0000-0001-8272-2338, corresponding author), Marcelo Ikeda |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 81-83 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Film Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-1386 • E-ISSN: 1533-8630 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/fq.2020.74.2.81 |
| OpenAlex | W3111095480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Bacurau is the name of a city in Brazilian hinterland whose inhabitants fight to survive a foreign invasion. The struggle of native populations for the right to remain on their land is a common motif not only in the history of cinema, as in classic Westerns, but also in Brazilian culture and history, In this article, Ikeda proposes that Bacurau’s originality lies in how it seeks to establish a balance between genre film and political cinema, eschewing the commodified exotic spectacle of Sérgio Rezende’s The Battle of Canudos (1997) and Glauber Rocha’s radical political allegory in Black God, White Devil (1964), in order to offer a more complex commentary on the current Brazilian historical moment
Aesthetics · Allegory · Ancient history · Art · Battle · Commodification · Economy · EPIC · Literature · Motif (music) · Movie theater · Originality · Political science · Politics · Spectacle · Brazilian cultural history and politics · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |