The article analyses recent works of fiction or non-fiction that made more visible the visual presence of the poor, black, dwellers of slums and neighborhoods in the periphery in Brazilian television and cinema. When they bring the subject to public attention, these movies have intensified and stimulated a quarrel for the control of the visuality, for the definition of which subjects and characters will have audiovisual expression, how and where, which is an strategic element in the definition of contemporary order (or disorder).
periphery; Brazilian cinema; poverty; violence