Music, affection and body politics in Karim Aïnouz’s New Queer Cinema

Authors

  • Guilherme Maia Universidade Federal da Bahia / Faculdade de Comunicação / Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Cultura Contemporâneas.
  • Everaldo Asevedo Federal University of Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2020.159605

Keywords:

Brazilian cinema, Music, Film analysis, New Queer Cinema

Abstract

By using the concept of added value proposed by Michel Chion, and verifying recent studies on the use of music in films as theoretical-methodological mediators, this article analyzes the musical projects of two films starring gay characters directed by Karim Aïnouz: Madame Satã (2002) and Praia do Futuro (2014). Analysis showed that music, especially popular songs, operates in conjunction with the protagonists’ amorous encounters and mismatches reverently to the ideals of representation of homosexual characters defended by New Queer Cinema.

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Author Biographies

  • Guilherme Maia, Universidade Federal da Bahia / Faculdade de Comunicação / Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Cultura Contemporâneas.

    Guilherme Maia is a composer, has a degree and a master's degree in Music from UNIRIO, and a PhD in Communication from UFBA. He is a professor at the Faculty of Communication and the Post-graduation Program in Contemporary Communication and Culture at UFBA. He is the author of the book Elements for a poetics of music of the films (Appris, 2015) and co-organizer of the books Musical cinema in Latin America: contemporary approaches (Edufba, 2018) and Listen to the documentary: voices, music and noises (Edufba, 2015).

  • Everaldo Asevedo, Federal University of Bahia

    Masters student of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Communication and Culture of the Communication Faculty of the Federal University of Bahia, Bachelor of Arts and Cinema in the same university and Bachelor in Law by the Catholic University of Salvador. He is currently developing a research project entitled "Sexuality and Heroism in Karim Aïnouz's gay cinema: the journeys of the protagonists of Madame Satã and Praia do Futuro".

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2020-07-16

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Music, affection and body politics in Karim Aïnouz’s New Queer Cinema. RuMoRes, [S. l.], v. 14, n. 27, p. 98–123, 2020. DOI: 10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2020.159605. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/Rumores/article/view/159605.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.