Abstract

JUNIOR, Alcidesio Oliveira da Silva. The Experience-Cinema as a Curriculum: Mapping Dissident Masculinities in Boi Neon (2015). Vista [online]. 2021, n.8, e021017.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 2184-1284.  https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.3646.

In the wild of the Pernambuco countryside in Northeast Brazil, a male body moves in the middle of a territory of intensities, which provokes shocks in how gender and sexuality identities are constructed. To map the processes of subjectivation of masculinities that escape the hegemonic models and inspired by the contributions of the philosophy of difference, visual culture, and post-critical theorizing of education, I cast my eyes and give space to my "vibrating body" (Rolnik, 1989) to read some scenes from Boi Neon (Neon Bull; 2015). The film, directed by Gabriel Mascaro, and one of the representatives of the new Pernambuco cinema, tells the story of Iremar, a cowboy who dreams of becoming a stylist. The argument developed in the text is that an experience-cinema is powerful for promoting encounters that de-subject us, making us prove affirmative existences. As final considerations, I understand that the neon ox, a magical figure that appears in the film's narrative, symbolizes Iremar himself, who, amidst the colorful patches and the rubble of the fashion dump, emerges with its transforming power in everyday worlds, even if protected in the location of an existence read as insignificant. Iremar is the neon ox of the Pernambuco countryside, the one who, through his natural body, his apparently unbreakable armor, reveals the sensitivity and tenderness of a male way of life in his becoming-woman.

Keywords : cinema; masculinities; visual culture; curriculum; cartography.

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