Identidades fragmentadas em Garotos de Programa de Gus Van Sant

Abstract

This article aims to explore Gus Van Sant’s film My Own Private Idaho (1991) starting from different approaches on the perception of the fragmentation of contemporary cultural identity from the perspective of cultural studies. We use especially the propositions from the authors Stuart Hall and Tomaz Tadeu da Silva in order to understand how this fragmentation condition configured in the film and its characters. Keywords : identity, fragmentation, My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant.