Suffering in Whitened Frames: Historical Films and Representations of Slavery in Rio de Janeiro during the First Republic (1907-1916)
Pedro Vinicius Asterito LAPERA
Abstract:The theme of this article is the encounter between some historical films that portrayed slavery in Classical Antiquity and Rio de Janeiro’s public scene during the First Republic, more precisely in the period between 1907 and 1916. Our main argument is that the consumption of such historical films contributed to the whitening of experiences of slavery in the common sense of carioca spectators of the time. The circulation of such productions thus fostered an erasure of the traumatic experiences that slavery rep… Show more
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