Poética e violência em a Febre do rato: contexto e conceitos

Abstract

This dissertation discusses some forms of violence in contemporary Western society, shaped by the values of the traditional Judeo-Christian culture . Pointing to the regional tenos of the cinema produced in Pernambuco, and choosing as a research proposal, to guide the analysis, the films Claudio Assis, in particular, the film A Febre do Rato (2011) proposes aesthetics and ethicals interpellations on some forms of representations of violence in societies that try to overcome sexism, poverty and other inequalities towards a civilized freedom. The main theoretical sources that guided the analysis of the subject are found, specially, in the interdisciplinary work of the philosopher Slavoj i ek, and includes the concepts of " anomic space" and " bare life" (philosophy of law), civility and freedom (sociology) and master-signifier (psychoanalysis). The treatment given to the subject seeks to weave a web of knowledge - intertwining fact, fiction and concept within the scope presented in order to reflect aspects of the political and social difficulties in a society intersected, at the same time, by the cultures of globalization and regionalism.