Infiltrando-se em blackkklasman: um estudo sobre cinema, representação e raça

Abstract

This work is about elements that are present in the representation process in the film Blackkklasman (2018), by director Spike Lee, involving the capacity of cinema as a source of identification and race relations. The main objective of the work is to approach and analyze the representation process in cinema (and films, in general) and the tools that this model brings to the identification and representation, mainly in the aspect of films that are based on real facts and race relations. The methodology used is the bibliographic review and three procedures that stand out in anthropological practice: the description, understanding and the use of various forms of explanation. Addressing the process of racial representation in cinema and society, the dialogue revolves around whiteness and its characteristics both in Brazilian society and in comparison with the American one, through a historical reconstruction of racial formation in Brazil and the interpretation of scenes from the film. The work discusses the ways in which whiteness is created and established, as well as the social hierarchy based on racial identities in society and its reflection in the world and in cinema. The work allows us to show how cinema can represent whiteness and expose its positions as identity and category, and as a mythical allegory that represents reality, not as it is, but in a subject's own vision and interpretation of the world, both of the film's producers and of the spectators who watch the screen.