The fragmented body of contemporary cinema

Authors

  • Elenildes Dantas Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v10i2p197-201

Keywords:

Cinema, cinematic body, aesthetics, image

Abstract

In The cinematic body, Steven Shaviro explores the relationship between the cinematic apparatus and the life of the body, suggesting that both are not alien or extrinsic to each other, since their symbolic and parasitic interpretation is part of the postmodern culture of social and technological relations of capitalist society. Understanding the cinema as a living medium that causes bodily reactions of desire and fear, pleasure and disgust, fascination and shame, the author seeks relations with postmodernity, the politics of human bodies, the construction of masculinity and the masochistic aesthetic, present in films.

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Author Biography

  • Elenildes Dantas, Universidade de São Paulo
    Programa de Pós-Graduação em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais

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Published

2016-08-31

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Book reviews

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How to Cite

Dantas, E. (2016). The fragmented body of contemporary cinema. MATRIZes, 10(2), 197-201. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v10i2p197-201