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This chapter examines two films by Adirley Queirós, A cidade é uma só?/Is the City One Only? (2011) and Branco sai, preto fica/White Out, Black In (2014), that take place in the peripheries of Brazil’s capital, Brasília. It argues that Queirós’s portrayal of the city offers a complex spatiality that produces new subjectivizing processes which are often rendered invisible by neoliberal urbanism. Moreover, it contends that both analyzed films provide a reterritorialization of Brasília through the spaces of Ceilândia (one of Brasília’s satellite cities), which shows new articulations of visibility and memory, and new modes of engaging with urban spaces and the complex power relations within them.
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de Jesus, E. (2017). The Reterritorializations of Urban Space in Brazilian Cinema. In: da Silva, A., Cunha, M. (eds) Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48267-5_3
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