TATUAGEM
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Tatuagem (Tattoo), directed by Hilton Lacerda (Brazil, 2013), screened on December 16, 2019. The movie explores the intersection of sexuality and dictatorship in 1970s Brazil. For the panel discussion following the film, the panelists were Paula Halperin, the chair of the School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College, and our Board member Barbara Weinstein, Professor of History and former chair of the History Department at New York University.
For further information on Tatuagen, click on the following links:
A video debate of the film with the director (in Portuguese)
For further information on Hilton Lacerda, click on the following links:
Cinemateca Pernambucana (in Portuguese)
43 Mostra Interview with Lacerda (in Portuguese)
For further information on the history of Brazil during the military dictatorship, click on the following links:
For further information on LGBTQ+ issues in Brazil, click on the following links:
Article about increased threats to the LGBTQ+ community
Article about LGBTQ+ rights threatened under President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court makes Homophobia and Transphobia Crimes
For further information on selected Brazilian films, click on the following links:
O Dia Que Durou 21 Anos (The Day that Lasted 21 Years)
Wikipedia link to films about the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
For further information on the Brazilian diaspora in the U.S., click on the following links:
Paula Halperin
Paula Halperin is the chair of the School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College. Halperin has been a member of both the History and Cinema Studies programs, and has contributed to Global Black Studies. Her scholarly work lies at the intersection of visual culture and nationalism in Brazil and Argentina from roughly 1960 to 1980, an era of political instability marked by dictatorships. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 2019 for the project, “Dancing Days: Nationalism, Soap Operas, and Dreams of Modernization in Authoritarian Brazil. 1978-1979.”
Barbara Weinstein
Barbara S. Weinstein is a Professor of History and former chair of the History Department of New York University. Her research has focused on postcolonial Latin America, particularly Brazil. Her courses and publications explore questions of labor, gender, race, and political economy in regions throughout Brazil from the Amazon to São Paulo. Her most recent book, "The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2015)", contrasts São Paulo in the early twentieth century with regions in the north and northeast of Brazil in order to understand formations of Brazilian racial and national identities . In 2007, she served as president of the American Historical Association, and in 2010-11 she was a resident fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She currently serves as a board member of the Latin American Film Center.