WALTER HUGO KHOURI’S VOYEURISTIC GAMES WITH HIS AUDIENCE IN NOITE VAZIA

• Authors: Joanna Małecka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper offers an analysis of Walter Hugo Khouri’s most acclaimed but also most controversial film, Noite Vazia (Men and Women, 1964). The author of the paper discusses Noite Vazia in the context of the 1950/60s economic boom in Brazil. Against this background, Khouri’s film is examined as an original and far-sighted challenge to the state-ideology which boasted ‘ fifty years progress in five’ and regarded cinema as a means of promoting social progress. A close analysis of Noite Vazia reveals Khouri’s rejection of such a restrictive cinematographic agenda. The film features an intricate game of looks and glances in which both Khouri’s characters, the silent city and also his audience become engaged. Outreaching the bounds of the politicallyapproved line of thinking, Khouri stages a daring comment on the role of the cinema, and on the universality and persistence of such traits of human nature as voyeurism and lustiness

Keywords

EN

Walter Hugo Khouri; Noite Vazia; Men and Women; Brazilian cinema; voyeurism

• Publisher: AGH University of Science and Technology
• Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2012

online

2013-12-03

Contributors

author

Joanna Małecka

Identifiers

DOI

10.7494/human.2012.11.1.61