Encounters at the margins: urban itineraries, body and desire in Marcelo Caetano’s filmography

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https://doi.org/10.12957/revmar.2020.47600

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City, Body, Sexuality, Brazilian cinema, Marcelo Caetano.

Abstract

In this article we aim to discuss how public spaces and liminal zones play a central role in Marcelo Caetano’s Bailão (2009), By your side (2011), and Electric body (2017). What is at stake in these films is the very possibility of experiencing urban locations as sites for affective encounters and erotic desire. Through an investment in relations and itineraries that take place in the margins, we trace a tension as well as a recurrent ambivalence towards the cities the characters inhabit. The cinematic form highlights the city as an imagined topography and also as a plane of perception composed of several modulations between disconnection and belonging, discipline and pleasure, proximity and exclusion.

Author Biography

Fabio Allan Mendes Ramalho, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana

Professor Adjunto do Instituto Latino-Americano de Arte, Cultura e História da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana. Doutor e Mestre em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Especialista em Jornalismo Cultural pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco; graduado em Administração pela Universidade de Pernambuco

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2020-05-31

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Ramalho, F. A. M. (2020). Encounters at the margins: urban itineraries, body and desire in Marcelo Caetano’s filmography. Revista Maracanan, (24), 501–517. https://doi.org/10.12957/revmar.2020.47600

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No. 24 (2020): A cidade e suas imagens

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