{"product_id":"neo-authoritarian-masculinity-in-brazilian-crime-film-1","title":"Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnalyzing how masculinity is portrayed in Brazilian crime film, connecting movie messages to  twenty-first-century issues \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues. Jeremy Lehnen argues that these films promote an agenda in support of the nation’s recent swing toward authoritarianism that culminated in the 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLehnen examines the integral role of masculinity in several archetypal crime films, most of which foreground urban violence, including \u003ci\u003eCidade de Deus, Quase Dois Irmãos, Tropa de Elite, O Homem do Ano\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eO Doutrinador\u003c\/i\u003e. Within these films, Lehnen finds representations that criminalize the poor, marginalized male; emasculate the civilian middle-class male intellectual, casting him as unable to respond to crime; and portray state security as the only power able to stem increasing crime rates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on insights from masculinity studies, Lehnen contends that Brazilian crime films are ideologically charged mediums that assert and normalize the presence of the neo-authoritarian male within society. This book demonstrates how gendered scripts can become widely accepted by audiences and contribute to very real power structures beyond the sphere of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA volume in the series \u003cem\u003eReframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin\/o America\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55807588008280,"sku":"9781683405436","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781683405436_79aeb673-d008-409d-a687-23ba2bd3fc53.jpg?v=1778679077","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/neo-authoritarian-masculinity-in-brazilian-crime-film-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}