Estética da virilidade: a cinematografia de Glauber Rocha e o banditismo no Sertão do Nordeste

Abstract

This work proposes to unravel the phenomenon of banditry in the sertão of northeastern Brazil, taking as a starting point the historiographical analysis of the film “Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol” (1964) by filmmaker Glauber Rocha. The complementary bibliography based on the work “Guerreiros do Sol” (1985) by Frederico Pernambucano de Mello will ensure the necessary theoretical framework to verify a unique culture of violence rooted in the social, economic and institutional reality of the region, preserved through the reproduction of values and codes of aggressive and intolerant conduct and behavior, legitimized by an aesthetic and psychological ideal of virile male honor and maintained as a result of a critical framework of impunity and lack of social control. It is a civilization that has historically used practices of particular justice to the detriment of the use of the rule of law and peaceful forms of mediation and resolution of pending conflicts, leading to extreme imbalances of generalized violence, aggravated by legal impunity, by the abandonment and neglect of the government and the resistance of the population itself to accept structural changes.