Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: JUSTINO BATISTA PEREIRA NETO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JUSTINO BATISTA PEREIRA NETO
DATE: 12/02/2026
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

The Representation of Brazil’s Northeast in the Film Bacurau: An Analysis of Cinematography

KEY WORDS:

Bacurau; Brazilian Cinema; Cinematography; Northeast; Representation.

PAGES: 73
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This study analyzes the representation of Brazil’s Northeast in the film Bacurau (2019), directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, focusing on the cinematography by Pedro Sotero as a central element in the film’s narrative, aesthetic, and political construction. The research brings together film theory, cultural studies, and social studies to examine how the film constructs visual codes of the sertão and perpetuates stereotypes of the Northeast. The theoretical framework addresses concepts such as representation (Hall, 2016), the creation of an imagetic space called the Northeast by Albuquerque Júnior (2011), the cinematic style proposed by Bordwell and Thompson (2013), Mirzoeff’s regimes of visibility (2015), and Didi-Huberman’s visual memory (2011). Applying Bordwell and Thompson’s (2013) qualitative film analysis, key sequences were selected: the arrival of the water truck; the matriarch’s funeral; the drone and aerial surveillance; the arrival of the southerners in Bacurau; the visit to the Bacurau museum; the massacre of the foreigners; and the final burial. A technical analysis guide was used, observing lighting, color, framing, narrative, and scenographic elements. Through the film’s cinematography, the study seeks to illustrate the filmic space as a territory of cultural, political, and social dispute. The dissertation is organized into three chapters: Chapter 1 — What Northeast Is This? reconstructs the genealogy of images of the Northeast in literature and cinema, discussing how the region was historically invented; Chapter 2 — Theoretical contributions on political cinema, genre cinema, and regionalism; Chapter 3 — Analysis of the cinematography of Bacurau.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3490575 - ADRIANO CHARLES DA SILVA CRUZ
Interno - 1961635 - DANIEL DANTAS LEMOS
Externo ao Programa - 3061790 - RODRIGO ALMEIDA FERREIRA - UFRN