Much Madness: Werner Herzog and Contemporary German Cinema

Young, Vernon

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“…In Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo , Herzog shot on location, distinguishing his films from Hollywood productions by portraying the “real life of the jungle” (Young, 1977: 410). Enraptured by the nature he experienced in the Amazon, he turned the landscape into a character: “In Aguirre the jungle is never some lush, beautiful environment there for decoration, as it might be in a television commercial.…”

Section: Explorers In the Amazon: White Masculinity Versus Naturementioning

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Before the “Ecologically Noble Savage”: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s

Sarzynski¹

2021

Latin American Perspectives

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An analysis of media representations of the Amazon and indigenous peoples reveals how media producers and filmmakers foregrounded discourses naturalizing gendered and racialized differences that distinguished the Amazon from the West in the 1970s, a decade during which the Brazilian military dictatorship promoted development projects in Amazonia. These representations often sexualized indigenous peoples and the Amazon itself, portraying them as primitive, cannibal savages, animals or part of nature, or victims of exploitation. The “Othering” of the Amazon and Amazonians was further elaborated through a discourse of binary oppositions that portrayed Western white men as explorers and exploiters who dominated the screen, scripts, studies, and development projects even if they were doomed to fail. By relying on a symbolic system of difference, global media coverage and films about Amazonia in the 1970s were complicit in legitimizing authoritarian decrees promoting large-scale development that depicted indigenous peoples and the environment as obstacles. Un análisis de las representaciones mediáticas de la Amazonía y sus pueblos indígenas revela cómo, en la década de 1970, productores y cineastas mediáticos resaltaron discursos que naturalizaron las diferencias de género y racializadas con las que se distinguían a la Amazonía del Occidente en una época durante la cual la dictadura militar brasileña promovió proyectos de desarrollo en la región. Dichas representaciones a menudo sexualizaban a los pueblos indígenas y a la Amazonía misma, retratándolos como primitivos, caníbales salvajes, animales o elementos naturales, o víctimas de explotación. La “otredad” de la Amazonía y los amazónicos se elaboró a través de un discurso de oposiciones binarias que retrataba a los hombres blancos occidentales como exploradores y explotadores que dominaban la pantalla, los guiones, los estudios y los proyectos de desarrollo, incluso si estos estaban condenados al fracaso. Al confiar en un sistema simbólico de diferencia basado en oposiciones binarias y estereotipos, la cobertura mediática global y las películas sobre la Amazonía en la década de 1970 fungieron como cómplices en la legitimación de los tipos de proyectos y políticas llevados a cabo en la región.

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Section: Explorers In the Amazon: White Masculinity Versus Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Before the “Ecologically Noble Savage”: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s

Sarzynski¹

2021

Latin American Perspectives

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Much Madness: Werner Herzog and Contemporary German Cinema

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Before the “Ecologically Noble Savage”: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s

Before the “Ecologically Noble Savage”: Gendered Representations of Amazonia in the Global Media in the 1970s

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