Wasting Away: (De)Composing Trash in the Contemporary Brazilian Documentary
2016; Linguagem: Inglês
10.62791/891gdc42
ISSN2573-1432
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoAbstract: This essay examines the metaphor of garbage in contemporary Brazilian documentary to problematize issues of race, class, and gender, focusing especially on Marcos Prado’s feature-length Estamira (2004). Utilizing the postmodern decomposition of antropofagia (coprofagia), theorized by Brazilian poet and cultural critic Glauco Mattoso as well as considerations of recent feminist thought, this essay will examine how the motif of lixo in recent Brazilian film serves to critique contemporary Brazilian social and economic policies by revealing a society that discovers itself—and ironically, its own value and values—through the garbage it produces.
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