"Gender is an absolute ground zero for most human societies,"
writes David William Foster, "an absolute horizon of social
subjectivity." In this book, he examines gender issues in thirteen
Brazilian films made (with one exception) after the 1985 return to
constitutional democracy and elimination of censorship to show how
these issues arise from and comment on the sociohistorical reality
of contemporary Brazilian society.
Foster organizes his study around three broad themes:
construction of masculinity, constructions of feminine and feminist
identities, and same-sex positionings and social power. Within his
discussions of individual films ranging from Jorge um brasileiro to
A hora da estrela to Beijo no asfalto, he offers new ways of
understanding national ideals and stereotypes, sexual dissidence
(homoeroticism and transgenderism), heroic models, U.S./Brazilian
relations, revolutionary struggle, and human rights violations. As
the first study of Brazilian cinematic representations of gender
ideology in English or Portuguese, this book will be important
reading in film and cultural studies.
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