(Geo)politics of perception: Limite, by Mário Peixoto, and Uma Página da Loucura, by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Authors

  • Andre Keiji Kunigami University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Keywords:

peripheral modernisms, Limite, A Page of Madness, film-phenomenology, universality

Abstract

The article engages a comparative analysis of two films considered
global landmarks of the “peripheral” interwar avantgarde, whose paths display many common aspects: Limite, by Mário Peixoto (1931), and A Page of Madness, by Kinugasa Teinosuke (1929). We argue for a post-colonial reading of film-phenomenology, focusing on their materiality and the ways in which they show the very filmic apparatus. Starting from the
discourses that constituted the local fascination with the films as exemplary of a modern and universal perceptual regime, we argue that through their very material constitution, the films put forth a counter-(geo)politics of time inherent to the corporeal dimension of filmic perception.

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Author Biography

Andre Keiji Kunigami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

André Keiji Kunigami é doutor pela Cornell University e atualmente é pesquisador associado de pós-doutorado na University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, junto ao Department of Romance Studies. Suas áreas de pesquisa são: vanguardas periféricas, teoria crítica e teoria crítica racial, fenomenologia, cinema brasileiro e cinema japonês.

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Published

2020-07-06

Issue

No. 44 (2020)

Section

Artigos | Articles

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