The Gender Ethics and Politics of Affection
The 'Feminine'Melodramatic Modein Walter Salles'Central do Brasil(1998)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4900433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julián Daniel Gutiérrez‐albilla (0000-0001-8863-8516, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-154 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00332.x |
| OpenAlex | W2045432530 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This article reads Walter Salles'sCentral do Brasil(1998)through a reappraisal of the film's relationship to melodrama in order to emphasise the significance of the association of affect with ethical judgment in thinking about the complex and contradictory gender politics of the film, thereby challenging the conventional tension between pathos and logos. Using a number of filmic and psychoanalytic theories, this article argues thatCentral do Brasil's melodramatic search for a 'space of innocence' in the Sertão could offer less a nostalgic return to anachronistic forms of living than a survival strategy for living in late modernity. Finally, this article argues thatCentral do Brasil, while lamenting the state's withdrawal from the public sphere, calls for an ethical imperative that is associated with a 'feminine' responsible and generous capacity to embrace the other as a necessary form of social and political action for the redefining of citizenship in Brazilian neoliberal society
Aesthetics · Affection · Anachronism · Art · Citizenship · Innocence · Literature · Pathos · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Social Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |