Field of a memory and visuality regimes: an analysis of the documentary ônibus 174
International Journal of Development Research
Field of a memory and visuality regimes: an analysis of the documentary ônibus 174
Received 17th December, 2018; Received in revised form 26th January, 2019; Accepted 10th February, 2019; Published online 31st March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Samene Batista Pereira Santana and Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This present extract of the doctoral thesis Field of a memory and regimes of visuality: the criminal subject in Youtube (2019) analyzed the intersections between cinema and discursive social representations of violence in Brazil, through the analysis of the Brazilian documentary Ônibus 174. The theoretical and methodological basis was the philosophical notion of discourse and memory field, as teached by the philosopher Michel Foucault. The analysis showed that cinematographic production in Brazil, especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s, enabled the discussion and remembrance of violence in Brazil in the environment of favela, poverty conditions, drug trafficking relations and legal pluralism in the struggle for power against the State.
