Conflict Cinemas in Northern Ireland and Brazil

✍ Scribed by Ketlyn Mara Rosa

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the analysis of sensorial representations of violent images in contemporary films that portray embodied violation in urban environments of street clashes and prisons in Northern Ireland and Brazil during the late twentieth century. There is an emphasis on the representation of senses and how they play a significant role in structuring narratives and mapping the cinematic landscapes of conflict. Whether on the streets and prisons of Belfast, Derry, São Paulo or Rio, the attention is on the endangered body and its fragility or strength. Analyzing films through the novel framework of sensorial perspective enables the understanding of urban and prison landscapes as part of a somatic geography that affects the corporeal engagement of the participants. As a multicultural study, this is an essential book for those interested in the relationship between cinema and history while taking into consideration the interactive roles of the senses and perception.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 The Pulsing Life Behind Images
1.2 Living, Breathing Space
1.3 The Sensorial Body in Film
1.4 Making Sense of the Chapters
References
Chapter 2: Unspeakable Acts: Embodiment and Perception in Bloody Sunday and ‘71
2.1 “You can’t just leave them lying like bits of meat here”: Bloody Sunday and a Chaotic Afternoon in Derry
2.2 “Get out of this country, none of us likes you!”:'71 and a Sensorial Journey Across Divided Belfast
References
Chapter 3: Embodied Violation in Tropa de Elite and A Divisão: The Spectacle of Torture and Violence in Rio’s favelas
3.1 “Pede pra sair!”: Corporeal Abuse and Uncontrollable Punishment in Tropa de Elite
3.2 “Tá com cheiro de sangue isso aqui”: A Sensorial Approach to Torture in A Divisão
References
Chapter 4: Corporeal Navigation of Carceral Spaces in Northern Ireland: The Sensorial Geography of Limitation in Maze and Silent Grace
4.1 “Eyes and ears”: Corporeal Navigation of the Carceral Geography in Maze
4.2 “We’re prisoners of war. We’re looking for political status not a bloody bar of chocolate”: Bodies, Incarcerated Spaces, and Sensorial Experience in Silent Grace
References
Chapter 5: Marginalized Bodies and Violated Senses: Representations of Inhumane Confinement in Carandiru and Quase Dois Irmãos
5.1 “Rebelião no 9, tranquei, a casa é nossa!”: The Violated Body in Carandiru’s Merciless Carceral Space
5.2 “Nós somos praticamente o último foco de resistência do país”: Political Oppression and Embodied Disruption in Quase Dois Irmãos
References
Chapter 6: Final Thoughts
References
Index