Expressões fílmicas da violência urbana contemporânea: Cidade de Deus, Notícias de uma guerra particular e Falcão, meninos do tráfico

Authors

  • Esther Hamburger Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000200006

Keywords:

cinema, violence, social inequality

Abstract

This paper discusses possible interlocutions between City of God - a feature fiction film directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2002 - and documentaries News from a Private War, directed by João Moreira Salles in 1999 and Falcon, boys of drug traffic, directed by rapper MV Bill and his agent and producer Celso Athayde in 2006. The paper compares different ways in which a fiction and two documentaries express different "appropriations of the mechanisms of producing visual expression" about Brazilian contemporary social inequality, which is perversely associated with violence and parallel powers that are active in favelas and peripheric neighborhoods.

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Published

2008-01-01

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 2 (2008)

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How to Cite

Hamburger, E. (2008). Expressões fílmicas da violência urbana contemporânea: Cidade de Deus, Notícias de uma guerra particular e Falcão, meninos do tráfico . Revista De Antropologia, 51(2), 547-574. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000200006