FOUCAULTIAN DEVICES IN THE AGE CUT OF OLD AGE:

A CASE STUDY ON ‘CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES’

Abstract

Abstract: Based on Foucauldian thinking about the exercise of power over bodies in their identity formation, the aim is to understand how control practices are exercised in the domain of the image, focusing on the interpretation of audiovisual languages ​​– represented here in the figure of actor Antônio Pitanga in the film Brazilian Casa de Antiguidades, 2020. The clarifying hypothesis is that the image of the character Cristovam, an elderly black man, gives him a pictorial aspect, given to a minority without the right to a voice in the community. If for Michel Foucault, society's control over individuals is not simply operated through ideology, but begins in the body, it is conclusive to assume that the bio-political reality announced by the French thinker also extends to contemporary audiovisual language, so fashionable in communication of mass.