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Description

1. xiv, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues"--
2. Lehnen examines the integral role of masculinity in several archetypal crime films, most of which foreground urban violence, including Cidade de Deus, Quase Dois Irmãos, Tropa de Elite, O Homem do Ano, and O Doutrinador. Within these films, Lehnen finds representations that criminalize the poor, marginalized male; emasculate the civilian middle-class male intellectual, casting him as unable to respond to crime; and portray state security as the only power able to stem increasing crime rates.Drawing on insights from masculinity studies, Lehnen contends that Brazilian crime films are ideologically charged mediums that assert and normalize the presence of the neo-authoritarian male within society. This book demonstrates how gendered scripts can become widely accepted by audiences and contribute to very real power structures beyond the sphere of cinema. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez"--

Series statement

1. Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America

Uniform title

1. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.

Subject

1. Masculinity in motion pictures
2. Authoritarianism in motion pictures
3. Crime films > Brazil > History and criticism
4. Motion pictures > Social aspects > Brazil
5. PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Crime
6. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
7. Crime films
8. Motion pictures > Social aspects
9. Brazil

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Being a Man in Brazil: Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film since Cinema Novo -- Spectacular Men and the Violence They Perform: Cidade de Deus -- Brotherhoods of Exception: Power, Politics, and Masculinity in Lucia Murat's Quase Dois Irmãos -- It's a Man's World: Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Tropa de Elite -- Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: O Homem do Ano -- A Superhero of their Own: O Doutrinador and Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity -- As I End . . . The Rise of the Neo-Authoritarian Masculine Paradigm.

Call number

1. MFL 22-36

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-230) and index.

Author

1. Lehnen, Jeremy, author.

Title

1. Neo-authoritarian masculinity in Brazilian crime film / Jeremy Lehnen.

Publisher

1. Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2022]

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America
2. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-230) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Lehnen, Jeremy. Neo-authoritarian masculinity in Brazilian crime film Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2022 9781683402787 (DLC) 2021031887

LCCN

1. 2021031886

ISBN

1. 9781683402541 hardcover
2. 1683402545 hardcover

Research call number

1. MFL 22-36