The sert(tão) in/of images: construction of discourses in the cinematographic language of the film Boi Neon about gender in the contemporary sertões (2000-2005)
Cinema/Contemporary. Genre. Masculinities. Sertão.
Iconographies of the sertão have never stopped being enunciated and produced by various types of discourse such as literature, novels, painting, photography, newspaper articles and, also by the discourse of cinema, at different times and with different styles and forms. Never before has there been so much production using the sertão as a spatial, social and temporal category, from which images associated with this spatiality and with the multiple meanings commonly associated with this region emerged. Thus, this work aims to understand the discourses instituted by contemporary cinematographic images about the sertão and the gender relations prevailing there, above all, the construction of sertanejo masculinities configured in a scenario of ruptures and continuities in relation to the moral codes that shape the be (so). Thus, we think that the northeastern hinterland, in its new images, is in a transition process, that is, the sertão is in transit, from a given temporality, from a state seen and said to be archaic, from a previously rural world, to the remodeling of the natural landscape into urban and by the diversity of gender behavior, in activities that were previously determined by heteronormativity and patriarchy.