Space, time and the post-modern Brazilian cinematic city: interrelations between the cinema and cultural geography

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Título
Space, time and the post-modern Brazilian cinematic city: interrelations between the cinema and cultural geography
Brazilian Geographical Journal: Geosciences and Humanities research medium
UFRN
Autor
Maria Helena Braga e Vaz da Costa
Assunto
Compressão tempo-espaço
Geografia Cultural
Pós-modernidade
cinema
Abstract
This paper comments on a diversity of concepts drawn from different authors and on David Harvey’s concept of ‘’time-space compression’ to set a discussion around the matter of cities and films or, rather, the different ways cities have been represented in films and in what sense the diversity of representations have affected the understanding of the cities themselves. Moreover, thinking about the post-modern condition, this paper will also discuss contemporary Brazilian cinema production by looking at the representation of urban space and violence and its connection to the production of new paradigms for representing space (and time) and understanding cultural identity within post-modernity. It will also present an analysis of the cinematic representation of two Brazilian cities: Rio de Janeiro, in Redentor (Redeemer, Cláudio torres, 2004) and São Paulo in O Homem do Ano (The Man of the Year, José Guilherme Fonseca, 2002).
volume
6
issue
2
Páginas
07-32
Date
2015
Língua
en
issn
2179-2321
título curto
Space, time and the post-modern Brazilian cinematic city
Rights
Direitos autorais 2016 Brazilian Geographical Journal: Geosciences and Humanities research medium