Queer Identities in Brazilian Political and Audiovisual History

这个项目将专注于从1964年到现在的古怪的巴西生产。它的目的是建立一个理论框架，来解释我选择的电影与它们上映时的历史政治场景之间的干扰。在暴力侵害酷儿的国家，如巴西，由酷儿角色制作的电影为LGBTQIA+社区(2018)创造了意识并确保了他们的权利。有鉴于此，这个博士项目旨在讨论巴西酷儿电影制作中美学、伦理和政治之间的近似，重点关注被边缘化的主题的表现。通过借鉴西姆斯(1988)、莫雷诺(2002)、兰奇埃尔(2009)和特雷维桑(2018)，这个项目将有助于拉丁美洲背景下关于性别、非殖民主义和电影的辩论。它的核心问题之一将是：古怪的视听产品与巴西历史上的政治场景之间有什么关系？这项研究将采取一种非殖民主义的方法，关注巴西的语境，通过促进边缘化的声音，并主要使用拉丁美洲学者来发展它，如穆尼奥斯(1999)、桑托斯(2010)、马奎斯(2014)和洛罗(2018)。我的目标是了解电影如何帮助我们确定巴西同性恋政治史中同性恋表现的路径，以及在由同性恋者制作的电影和不是由同性恋者制作的电影中，如何存在以同性恋为中心的权力结构。为此，我打算进行一项纵向研究，重点是社会历史，通过查看与巴西不同历史时期有关的8部电影语料库。为了探索影响电影制作和接受的历史和政治背景，我将选择从1964年到现在的作品。这个分期是必要的，因为它包含了巴西剧烈政治变革的场景，涵盖了四种不同形式的政治和经济政权：1964-1985年(军事独裁)；1985年-(新自由主义和民族主义)；-2016年(新自由主义和民主化)；2016年-2021年(极右翼崛起)。

This project will focus on queer Brazilian production from 1964 to the present. It aims to develop atheoretical framework that accounts for the interferences between my selected films and the historical political scenario upon their release. In countries with a high rate of violence against queer people, suchas Brazil, the films made by and with queer characters have collaborated in creating awareness andsecuring rights for the LGBTQIA+ community - Colling (2018).In light of this, this PhD project intends to discuss the approximations between aesthetics, ethics, andpolitics in Brazilian queer filmmaking, with a focus on the representations of marginalised subjects. Bydrawing upon Sims (1988), Moreno (2002), Rancière (2009), and Trevisan (2018), this project willcontribute to debates about gender, decoloniality, and cinema in a Latin American context. One of itsdriving questions will be: what are the relationships between queer audiovisual production and thepolitical scenario through Brazilian history? This research will have a decolonial approach by focusing ona Brazilian context, by promoting marginalized voices, and by using mainly Latin-American scholars forits development, such as Muñoz (1999), Santos (2010), Marques (2014), and Louro (2018).My goal is to understand how cinema can help us identify a path of queer representations within Brazilianqueer political history and how, both in films made by queer people and films not made by queer people,but that feature queer characters, there is a power structure centered on queerness. To that end, I intendto conduct a longitudinal study, with a social-historical emphasis, by looking at a corpus of 8 films relatedto different historical periods within Brazil. To explore the historical and political context that impacts theproduction and reception of films, I will select works that cover the period between 1964 and the present.This periodisation is necessary because it encompasses a scenario of intense political change in Brazil,covering four different forms of political and economic regimes: 1964-1985 (military dictatorship); 1985-1989 (neoliberalism and nationalism); 1989-2016 (neoliberalism and democratisation); 2016-2021 (riseof the far right).