Film and Malaria
Mário De Andrade and the Politics of Just Looking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andre Keiji Kunigami (0000-0002-2809-696X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 379-399 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2020.1823347 |
| OpenAlex | W3113226860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
In 1927, Brazilian modernist Mário de Andrade encountered in the Amazon a perceptual state provoked by malaria. The malarial gaze was a type of enduring, inactive, and embodied gaze that he imagines as a mode of resistance against capitalist modernity – a trope that finds its way into the critical discourse on national identity. Dialoguing with film theory and queer phenomenology, the article closely reads three scenes of looking in Andrade’s Amazonian photographs and travel notes, in which such a perceptual state is evoked and unravels a processual entanglement between capitalist modernity, the Amazon, and the modernist subject. The article shows how the inactive malarial gaze emerges through a mediated queer experience of the filmic image that gets suppressed in favour of a pure immediacy of the tropics, arguing that at the core of Andrade’s ambivalent politics of looking lies the problem of the impossibility of a “critical” national project. Fleshing out the political potentialities held by perception, the author suggests through Mário de Andrade a film-political constellation to understand the critical stakes of being an inactive spectator in the (geo)politics of extractive, peripheral capitalism
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Epistemology · Gaze · Immediacy · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Trope (literature · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sociology and Education in Brazil
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Carnal Thoughts
The Human Condition
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The Tradition of the Oppressed
Annette Lavers, Roland Barthes
Introduction
Terra roxa e outras terras
O turista aprendiz na Amazônia
Facing Brazil
The Fold
Malária como doença e perspectiva cultural nas viagens de Carlos Chagas e Mário de Andrade à Amazônia
Mário de Andrade fotógrafo-viajante e a linguagem modernista
Karman
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |