Emerging cinematographic communication practice: bodies in movement in Terra estrangeira (1995), by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas

Abstract

In this paper we propose to show how cinema constitutes a particular and emerging means of communication for the understanding of dislocated identities, in processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of bodies in permanent transit. In this way, we are interested in giving an account of the new territorialities of identity spaces in conflict, in ambivalent and uncertain trans-local scenarios. We will observe how a third space of cinematographic enunciation is configured, as a split interstitial place, as an inscription and articulation of the hybridity of corporealities in continuous displacement. In this sense, our fundamental purpose will be to study Terra estrangeira (1995), by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, as an audiovisual medium that designs mechanisms of construction of the problematic identities of immigrants, as a source of interpretation of the sensibilities and emotions of subjectivities in transit. This study will be carried out based on the contributions of Jesús Martin Barbero's Communication Theory and the theoretical reflections of Arjun Appadurai and Homi Bhabha.