Hybridization and Speech Genres in Recife Frio, by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading of discursive aspects in Recife Frio (2009), a short film by Kleber Mendonça Filho. It aims at reflecting on how genre hybridization, which results from the presence of incorporated genres, creates meanings and provokes certain attitudes in the interaction between film and spectators. To do so, I discuss some key concepts of Bakhtinian theory, describe specific moments of the short film, and finally conduct a pointed analysis of specific scenes or sequences. This form of dialogue with the corpus follows the assumptions of the sociological poetics that traverse the discussions done by Bakhtin and the other researchers of the Circle(s). These reflections point to a play between fiction and reality, which in the film is triggered by the presence of elements that may be associated to the documentary genre.