Tendências de imagem-violência no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo

Abstract

The objective of this research is to elucidate the image-violence tendencies in the contemporary Brazilian cinema. The theoretical base behind this research is referred from Bergson and Deleuze. In relation to the topic violence, the referential is attributed to Derrida pertaining to “deconstruction”. The research’s empirical object is composed of ten contemporary films that include violence as a theme and were structured from the cartographic method. The organization of the study is made in series, following principals and procedures performed by Deleuze in “Logic of Sense”. Each series presents a tendency or aspects of a tendency that can be read independently or in sequence with any other series, without the need for a mandatory order. Moreover, the study observes the violence in its different states, according to the variation of the picture in a conception of time. It is also observed that violence is in general presented in a judgmental manner, directed in relation to self-acknowledgment and experience. Finally, the study is presented in context of challenging the Brazilian cinema to assemble violence specifically to the image, independently of the violence in the social context presented in the films.