Cabelo Bom: Representações, Identidades e Pretagonismo no CinemaInfantojuvenil Brasileiro

Abstract

This paper presents a study of short films for children and youth that are directed by black Brazilian directors that work with the theme of racism in childhood through the theme of hair. We propose reflections on the rupture of stereotypes from the pretagonismo (black protagonism) in the audiovisual by analyzing counter-hegemonic narratives and characters in the films Ana (Vitória Felipe, 2017), Guri (Adriano Monteiro, 2019) and Fábula de Vó Ita (Joyce Prado and Thalita Oshiro, 2016). The research is based on the concepts of representation and identity, oppositional gaze, coloniality and black Atlantic’s diasporas.

Keywords

• children's and youth films
• childhoods
• racism
• diaspora
• identification processes