Queer performance and indecent theology in the Gospel according to Porta dos Fundos
In December 2019 Netflix dropped The First Temptation of Christ, a Christmas special by the Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos. The drama ensues when Jesus returns home on his thirtieth birthday after forty days in the desert with his flamboyantly gay lover Orlando. Outrage greeted the film’s r...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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| Dans: |
Theology & sexuality
Année: 2022, Volume: 28, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 112-130 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Brésil
/ Télévision
/ Parodie
/ LGBT
/ Représentation
/ Jesus Christus
/ Théologie queer
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianisme et culture FD Théologie contextuelle KBR Amérique Latine NBF Christologie NCF Éthique sexuelle ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Marcella Althaus-Reid
B Chrétien B Porta dos Fundos B axé B Sexuality B Indecent Theology B Fabio Porchat B José Esteban Muñoz |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Résumé: | In December 2019 Netflix dropped The First Temptation of Christ, a Christmas special by the Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos. The drama ensues when Jesus returns home on his thirtieth birthday after forty days in the desert with his flamboyantly gay lover Orlando. Outrage greeted the film’s release in Brazil and North America. On-line petitions demanded Netflix to take down the film, churches in Brazil filed lawsuits, and on Christmas eve an extremist group threw two Molotov cocktails at Porta’s office in Rio de Janeiro. We demonstrate that the film stages queer performance that disidentifies with toxic tropes from mainstream cultural sources. Porta’s liberative praxis creates queer Christian possibilities as it disrupts the present with queer futurity and hope. The film thus provides a source for indecent theology re-figuring a Christology that correlates more profoundly with how people live and love. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2023.2225369 |