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This article aims to investigate the political and conceptual power of the successful and highly praised film Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2019) by inserting it within general trends of contemporary visual culture surrounding the issue of cinematic precarity. The discussion will find its analytical coordinates around the notions of chronotope and dialogism. These tools are notoriously attributed to Mikhail Bakhtin and are intended to investigate regular patterns in aesthetic experiences and to evaluate the differential and subversive potential to be attributed to every case study. The grounding assumption of the following analysis is to understand cinematic experience as an ecological encounter and an affective and conceptual interaction in which viewers find the opportunity to explore and experience complex ethical systems: a productive interrelation that allows us also to connect the discussion with reflections upon general dynamics of neoliberal governance and with trajectories of resistance and revolt against it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following introduction to the Special Issue addresses the problematic definition of the notion of precarity by highlighting its multifaceted value and possible interpretation in relation to the moving image. It also aims, at the same time, to show some directions in which, in accordance with the work of many scholars, it is possible to come with effective transversal modes of adopting and applying the concept. In this sense, the introduction also shows how the various papers of the Special Issue are capable to contribute to this understanding in unique and productive ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]