Body and Politics: Gender, Sexuality and Intimacy in "Boi Neon"

Authors

  • Fabio Zoboli Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Educação Física, São Cristóvão - SE, 49100-000, Brasil.
  • Renato Izidoro da Silva Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Educação Física, São Cristóvão - SE, 49100-000, Brasil.
  • Eduardo Galak Universidad Nacional de La Plata - UNLP/Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET, Argentina).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v5n2.379

Keywords:

Body, Politics, Film “Boi Neon, Aesthetic

Abstract

This text aims to analyse political issues about bodies involved in the film “Boi Neon”, especially thinking about gender, sexuality, and intimacy. The main thesis is that cinema – images in movement – functions as a device for disseminating political and aesthetic discourses that stress corporal techniques and its subjective relationships. The film directed by Gabriel Mascaro has as a self-referentiality, presenting in its narrative the bodily hexis linked to the political relations characteristic of the cultural and economic history of the Brazilian northeast. The political practices linked to the body in the film are connected to a resignification of traditional dichotomous: male/female, human/animal, public/private.

Author Biographies

Fabio Zoboli, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Educação Física, São Cristóvão - SE, 49100-000, Brasil.

Post-doctoral researcher in “Body education” by the National University of La Plata (UNLP / Argentina). PhD in Education from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA / Brazil). Professor of the Physical Education Department of the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS / Brazil). Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Cinema (PPGCINE / UFS) and the Graduate Program in Education (PPGED / UFS). Member of the research group "Body and politics".

Renato Izidoro da Silva, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Educação Física, São Cristóvão - SE, 49100-000, Brasil.

PhD in Education from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA / Brazil). Professor of the Physical Education Department of the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS / Brazil). Professor of the Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Cinema (PPGCINE / UFS) and the Post-Graduate Program in Education (PPGED / UFS). Coordinator of the research group "Body and politics".

Eduardo Galak, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - UNLP/Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET, Argentina).

Post-doctoral researcher in “Education, Knowledge and Social Integration” by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil). PhD in “Social Sciences” by La Plata National University (UNLP, Argentina). Master in “Corporal Education” (UNLP / Argentina). Assistant Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET, Argentina). Ordinary Professor of the National University of La Plata (UNLP / Argentina).

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Published

2018-07-14

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018): Brazilian cinema in the neoliberal age

Section

Special Section