‘Você quase ganhou um orquídea viva!’: queer deception and homosocial desire in Ruy Guerra's Os Cafajestes (1962)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i33.140583Keywords:
cinema, queer theory, Ruy Guerra, Eve SedgwickAbstract
This article will examine queer themes in one of the earliest examples of Cinema Novo, Ruy Guerra’s Os cafajestes. Through a close reading of the film, this article traces queer themes in both the plot and in the film’s broader political message. As such, this article explores one way in Western queer theory might be used to understand Brazilian political cinema of the 1960s. It finds, in part, that when a queer critique complements a Marxist perspective, Os cafajestes can be shown to present viewers with a potent and multifaceted diagnosis of oppression.
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