Naturalism and its dispersions in 2000s Brazilian films

• Autor(a) principal: Leites, Bruno
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/86457
• topic: Naturalismo. Imagem. Cinema brasileiro. Literatura. Pulsão de morte.; Naturalism. Image. Brazilian cinema. Literature. Death drive.

The literary Naturalism is an aesthetic frequently repulsed in analyses of Naturalism and Realism in the cinema. In this work, I take an alternative course, recovering the characteristics of Naturalism to analyse a wave of films in the 2000s Brazilian cinema. Over the decade, a series of films has actualized the characteristics of the Naturalist project, among which I highlight the objective of making studies of peripheral realities exhausted by the crises of civilization; the searching for diseases deeply rooted in those regions; the presence of the tragic, the entropy and/or the death instinct; an aesthetics of excess with cruelty, sensation and sensationalism. Those characteristics got together in Naturalist films, however, they were dispersed in the decade, showing that Naturalist premises were no longer attractive as an aesthetical and political project over the years. Finally, I defend the pertinence and necessity of placing the problem of image and Naturalism beyond the extreme and caricatured submission in the paradigm of transparency.