Revista Estudos Feministas ISSN: 0104-026X
[email protected] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brasil Martins Bessa, Karla Adriana “How I became what I am” an aesthetics of twist cinema in films from the 1960s and 1970s Revista Estudos Feministas, vol. 25, núm. 1, enero-abril, 2017, pp. 287-309 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Santa Catarina, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=38149070015 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584.2017v25n1p287 Karla Adriana Martins Bessa Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil “How I became what I am”: an aesthetics of twist cinema in films from the 1960s and 1970s Abstract: The article analyzes the political and theoretical potential of cinematographic language to express and rebuild the relationship between sexual and gender differences. As cultural products, the three films analyzed - A Casa Assassinada (1972), Sunday, bloody Sunday (1971) and Les Amities Particulières (1964) - allude to feminist issues of the time, as well as instigating a reading of gender beyond the narratives, by historicizing the visibility of the female body, heteronormativity, and the subversiveness of forbidden loves as represented through the films’ structure. The text argues, from a queer perspective, that the aesthetic nature of twist cinema, within the limits of each style and period, was precisely the boldness to run risks in its visual grammar, not making political concessions in challenging the moral canons of current society.