Disruptive masculinity landscapes: on the power of the queer mountain

Authors

  • Daniel Oliveira Silva Universidade da Beira Interior

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2023.215311

Keywords:

Queer Cinema, Brokeback Mountain, The Power of the Dog, Western, Jane Campion

Abstract

This paper examines how Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (2021) subvert the landscape and the imagery of the western, using gender to disrupt genre. Dissecting how both movies explore the juxtaposition of the home space versus the outdoors, and which gender traditionally belongs to each of them, the investigation ponders how the two filmmakers resort to the aesthetic tools of, respectively, the romantic melodrama and the psychological drama to challenge these fixed positions, from a queer perspective. By doing so, the films destabilize and deconstruct the masculinity inherent to the western and its cinematic landscape.

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Author Biography

  • Daniel Oliveira Silva, Universidade da Beira Interior
    Doutorando em Media Artes, com bolsa da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), e mestre em Cinema pela Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), em Portugal. Graduado em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), com especialização em História da Cultura e da Arte pela mesma instituição, e pós-graduação em Roteiro para Cinema e TV, pelo Humber Institute, de Toronto. Atua como crítico desde 2004, sendo filiado à Associação Brasileira (Abraccine) e à Federação Internacional de Críticos de Cinema (Fipresci).

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Filmografia

BROKEBACK Mountain (O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain). Ang Lee, EUA/Canadá, 2005.

CALAMITY Jane (Ardida como Pimenta). David Butler, EUA, 1953.

EL DORADO. Howard Hawks, EUA, 1966.

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Published

2023-10-20

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Vol. 50 (2023)

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Disruptive masculinity landscapes: on the power of the queer mountain. (2023). Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 50, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2023.215311

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