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A feminine image of the city from Rio de Janeiro’s urban periphery: audiovisual practices, representations and imaginaries Mary Freedman (24292649) PUREID: 673263532 Urban imaginary audiovisual production feminine periphery urban feminism socio-spatial strcuctures film and the city flâneuse Rio de Janeiro cinema clubs cinema negro brasileiro Black Brazilian cinema image of the city cine-ritual autoconstrução practice as research experimental film This thesis contends that moving images have an important role in the articulation of society and space, revealing it and shaping it through a connection between the real and the imaginary. Focusing on contemporary production by women from the peripheral region of the Baixada Fluminense, I explore aspects of the relationship between audiovisual practices and representations and the socio-spatial construction of gender in the city, arguing that they embody and make visible an intersectional feminine image of the city. At a moment of greater access to the production of audio-visual media, the thesis examines ways in which the creation and screening of audiovisual productions in the city become vehicles for seeing differently, for reflecting on socio-spatial structures through time, and for inventing new possibilities and / or imaginaries. <br><br>Moving from fieldwork to a theoretical frame that brings together audiovisual studies and urban studies, with a focus on gender and race in Brazil, the written thesis is complemented by practice-based work, driven by the idea of thinking through, and with, images and sounds. The location of this study in Rio de Janeiro – the iconic urban image of Brazil and the birthplace of Brazilian cinema – not only facilitates the emplacement of such an enquiry within a historic continuum but poses broader and urgent questions about our capacity to imagine other forms of structuring and inhabiting, urban social worlds.<br><br><i>Thesis is embargoed until 31 December 2028.</i><br> 2026-10-01T16:16:19Z Text Thesis 10.17034/32805350.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/A_feminine_image_of_the_city_from_Rio_de_Janeiro_s_urban_periphery_audiovisual_practices_representations_and_imaginaries/32805350 All Rights Reserved Open Access after 2028-12-31