This Bachelor essay discusses the social-spatial segregation in contemporary Brazilian society as represented in the feature film Que horas ela volta? (2015) by the Brazilian director Anna Muylaart...Show moreThis Bachelor essay discusses the social-spatial segregation in contemporary Brazilian society as represented in the feature film Que horas ela volta? (2015) by the Brazilian director Anna Muylaart, award winner in the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. It portrays the interaction of social classes within the private space. The cinematographic representation of the restructuring of power relations established in Brazilian society is examined through narrated places, along the line of place as a social constructed space, based on the theory by Henri Lefebvre, and woven together with intersubjective time-space-identity constructions based on the idea of bakhtin’s chronotope. Two spatial themes in the film, the area of the private pool and the connection of the private with the outside world, are analyzed as elements of representation of the restructuring of power relations. It will be argued that the film makes clear how colonial principles are internalized by all social classes and still structure social-spatial relations in contemporary Brazilian society, however obnubilated, while new generations contest and renew these persistent structures.Show less
