Brazilian Video Works: Diversity and Identity in a Global Context

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

The thesis intersects the fields of Video/Brazilian Studies/Cultural Theory, and utilises contributions from the areas of History, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Art History, and Film Studies. It traces an analytical trajectory through the critical investigation of six video works made by Brazilian videomakers. The first chapter, Sandra Kogut s What Do You Think People Think Brazil Is?: Rephrasing identity , shows that the way Kogut s piece is constructed, with its aesthetics of hybridity, forces us to reconceptualise the question of national identity, which in the case of Brazil can found in its refractions. The second chapter, The riches of deferral: Sandra Kogut s Here and There weaves, around Kogut s depiction of a young woman s indecision about departing to the big city, an exploration of the relationship between centre and periphery, dissecting some symbolical projections born out of colonialism and, more contemporaneously, globalisation. The third chapter, Myth in the times of the media: Carlos Nader s The Portrait of a Serial Kisser , develops a study of cultural characterology, relating Brazilian Modernism and its theories of cultural cannibalism to Nader s portrayal of a man who searches for media attention by kissing celebrities in Rio de Janeiro. The fourth chapter, From the camera as channel to the face as mirror: Sandra Kogut s Parabolic People and other works , explores the utopic drives involved in the necessity of visually translating across cultures in a globalised world. The fifth chapter, Demystifying the Self: Flávio Ribeiro s Equator , follows some of the developments of the representation of the self in contemporary art and addresses the relationship between video and narcissism. The sixth chapter, After the rubbish: Eduardo Coutinho s The Scavengers deals with documentary video practice, the aestheticisation of misery and the material and metaphorical appropriation of junk by twenty-century art.

ASSUNTO(S)

cinema comunicação carlos nader brazilian videomakers flávio ribeiro brazilian videos artes do video vídeo sandra kogut cultura video brasileiro eduardo coutinho

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