Função-monstro e o cinema

  • Beatriz Rodrigues Chagas (Student)

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

According to the logic of globalization, we are all participants and victorious are the ones who manage to take up central positions. The problem of this circumstance consists, not exclusively, in the imposition of the participation of all entities and of the strategic agencies that adhere to universalist and differentiation mechanisms. This dissertation proposes to think of monster as a concept that shares the condition of a subversive other and reveals the structural rigidity of current worlds – given that it establishes those worlds’ internal limits. Consequently, we try to prove that monster gathers enabling qualities for the construction of new worlds, preferably worlds that dismiss hegemonic discourses. The relevance of monster in the present investigation arises, precisely, from cinema as a means of producing worlds and generating monstrous existences. As such, the outline of a monstrosity function, necessary to make monster possible, is executed and updated mainly from examples of cinema and also from the assessment of the potential of cinema itself to be monster.
Date of Award9 Dec 2022
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa
SupervisorVânia Maria Coutinho (Supervisor)

Designation

  • Mestrado em Cinema

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