Título : Queering Moby Dick. Pornography as a political strategy in João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira |
Autor : Marques, Bruno Caldeira, Ana Catarina |
Editor : Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche |
Fecha de publicación: 2024-01-31 |
URI : https://hdl.handle.net/11000/32063 |
Resumen :
En un momento en que el matrimonio civil entre personas del mismo sexo estaba
en el centro del debate social y político en
Portugal, la película Hero, Captain, and Stranger (2009) de João Pedro Vale (JPV) y Nuno
Alexandre Ferreira (NAF) cruzó el arte, la
política de identidad y pornografía. Siendo
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As same sex marriage emerged at centre
of the social and political debate in Portugal, the film Hero, Captain, and Stranger
(2009), by João Pedro Vale (JPV) and
Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (NAF), intersected art, identity politics and pornography in a manner hitherto unseen in
Portugal. A homoerotic adaptation of
Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick;
or, The Whale, the film confronts a series
of aesthetical and political taboos (and
prejudices) which have never been analysed in depth despite their topicality. Initially conceived to survey the references to
Portuguese seaman from Massachusetts
in Herman Melville’s novel, the project by JPV and NAF is an irreverent provocation to
a ‘semi-peripheral’ milieu, which still denied juridical recognition of homosexual marriage
thirty-five years after the demise of the dictatorial regime (1926-1974). Basing itself on
overcoming the incompatibility between art and pornography, as well as exploring the distinctive connection between the idea of democratic eros and a more egalitarian model of gay pornography, this article highlights the transformative capacity of ‘pornographic art’ to challenge
established categories. It unveils a nuanced landscape that encourages a reevaluation of
societal norms and moral dichotomies, ultimately facilitating a more inclusive and expansive
comprehension of human desire.
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Palabras clave/Materias: João Pedro Vale Nuno Alexandre Ferreira arte pornografía matrimonio personas mismo sexo novela Moby-Dick art pornography same sex marriage |
Área de conocimiento : CDU: Ciencias sociales |
Tipo de documento : info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos de acceso: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
DOI : https://doi.org/10.21134/mhjournal.v15i.2096 |
Publicado en: Miguel Hernández Communication Journal Núm.15 (2024) |
Aparece en las colecciones: Miguel Hernández Communication Journal Núm.15 (2024)
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