FOUCAULTIAN DEVICES IN THE AGE CUT OF OLD AGE:

A CASE STUDY ON ‘CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES’

Authors

  • Valmir Moratelli PUC-Rio
    • Tatiana Helich PUC-Rio

      DOI:

      https://doi.org/10.36517/psg.v15iespecial.93419

      Abstract

      Abstract: Based on Foucauldian thinking about the exercise of power over bodies in their identity formation, the aim is to understand how control practices are exercised in the domain of the image, focusing on the interpretation of audiovisual languages ​​– represented here in the figure of actor Antônio Pitanga in the film Brazilian Casa de Antiguidades, 2020. The clarifying hypothesis is that the image of the character Cristovam, an elderly black man, gives him a pictorial aspect, given to a minority without the right to a voice in the community. If for Michel Foucault, society's control over individuals is not simply operated through ideology, but begins in the body, it is conclusive to assume that the bio-political reality announced by the French thinker also extends to contemporary audiovisual language, so fashionable in communication of mass.

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      Author Biographies

      • Valmir Moratelli, PUC-Rio

        Doutor em Comunicação pelo PPGCOM da PUC-Rio.

      • Tatiana Helich, PUC-Rio

        Doutoranda em Comunicação pelo PPGCOM da PUC-Rio.

      Published

      2024-10-15

      Issue

      Section

      Dossiê Foucault, 40 anos: pensamento, acontecimento e resistência

      How to Cite

      MORATELLI, Valmir; HELICH, Tatiana. FOUCAULTIAN DEVICES IN THE AGE CUT OF OLD AGE: : A CASE STUDY ON ‘CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES’. Passagens: Journal of the Post-Graduate Program in Communication at UFC, Fortaleza, v. 15, n. especial, p. 124–147, 2024. DOI: 10.36517/psg.v15iespecial.93419. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufc.br/passagens/article/view/93419. Acesso em: 4 jun. 2026.