Experimentation, Corporeality and Abjection
Other Possible Delusions in Quem é Beta? (1973), by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2020.25636Keywords:
female characters, abject, Brazilian cinema, science fiction, Quem é Beta?, Nelson Pereira dos SantosAbstract
This article aims at understanding, from the construction of the female characters in Quem é Beta? (1973), by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, what is reflected in his images in the midst of an apocalyptic future that points to memory – technology achieved by few – and survival through violence as fissures that lead us to question the human. By means of authors who approach the despicable female – or abject –, such as Julia Kristeva (1986); human temporality, such as Georges Didi-Hubermann (2011); and the concomitant relations between cinema and history, such as Marc Ferro (1992), this study points to the Brazilian cinema genre of science fiction – a terrain almost, but not completely uninhabited – as an authentic glimpse of survival to think the feminine.
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