A outra língua em um filme hollywoodiano: um espaço destinado ao estrangeiro em "Nova York Sitiada" / The other language in a Hollywood film: a space for the foreigner in "New York under siege"

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2008

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The continuous production of movies in Hollywood is organized according to certain major genres, each of which allows for predefined features in terms of contents. Over the last three decades, a subgenre of terror (the terrorist movie) has developed, reviving an existing tendency to produce catastrophe movies. This new category has offered other possibilities of screenplays. Among the number of titles which deal with terrorism, The Siege, released two years after the 1996 attack on the US military in Saudi Arabia, stands out. Such screenplays presuppose conflict and the antithetical figure therefore becomes fundamental, even if only as a narrative substratum due to the susceptibilities of the historic period in question. In these plots, the enemy is invariably a foreigner, thus requiring, among other necessary elements for his representation, the reservation of a space for verbal expression. This is an occasion which can reveal the presence of a language other than English in the movie. Anchored in the theoretical principles of French school Discourse Analysis, this dissertation investigates, in pre-selected excerpts, the representations of the modes of verbal expression associated with this alterity (the Arab character, in this case). This dissertation attempts to observe, always based on this notion of space reserved for the modes of verbal expression, how the process of identification occurs in the movie in other words, to recognize the types of identity constructed for both characters (eastern and western) that, in the complex of the excerpts analyzed, serve as counterpoints.

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discurso oriente língua the east identity the west identidade alterity representation alteridade cinema ocidente cinema representação discourse language

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