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Clockwork Orange: violence or violation?

The article analyzes the film Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, made in 1971. In opposition to the traditional analyses which try to see this film as a libel against violence - or curiously, an apology for this same violence -, the purpose here is to give an interpretation which follows the visual fundaments that render the spectator this perception of "violence", emphasizing there mainly the values put into evidence by the images the film shows us. Consequently an analytical redirectioning of well-watched and discussed film is suggested, and other fundamental elements are brought to light as well as the manner by which these elements are exposed to the audience, in order to build up a new dimension of unexpected meanings.

Clockwork Orange; violence; sex; moral; fiction; future


Departamento de Sociologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315, 05508-010, São Paulo - SP, Brasil - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
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