Narratives of violence: the white imagination, and the making of black masculinity in 'City of God'

The article explores the representation of young–black men in the 2002 film City of God. The film deploys 'pathological scripts' of Black masculinity in Brazil as criminal and deviant. The controlling image of Black men's bodies as a source of danger and impurity sustains Brazilian r...

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Main Author: Jaime Amparo Alves
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Icesi 2014-06-01
Series:Revista CS
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Online Access:https://icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/revista_cs/article/view/1829