A construção da imagem feminina no cinema hollywoodiano: uma análise do filme Aves de rapina: Arlequina e sua emancipação fantabulosa

Abstract

Understanding cinema as a strong social agent, we propose, with this work, to discuss the construction of gender applied to the fictional character Arlequina, in the film Birds of Prey: Arlequina and her Fantabulous Emancipation (Cathy Yan, 2020). To do so, we intend to analyze how the sociocultural imaginary develops about the female image, from the concepts of Masculine Domination, by Bourdieu (1995); The Second Sex, by Beauvoir (2016); and Imaginary, by Durand (2002). Subsequently, the trajectory of the roles assigned to women in Hollywood cinema will be analyzed, as well as the superhero genre and its relevance to the contemporary scene. After all, we consider that there are few studies on how the image of women was and continues to be constructed in the cinema and, furthermore, few questions about the subjectivities of each production. To emphasize the character, the research seeks to explore the process of creation, canonization, and its transposition in the cinema. The methodology will be based on the analytical proposals of Jacques Aumont and Michel Marie, Diane Rose, and Francis Vanoye and Anne Goliot-Lété. One of the results of the analysis points out, therefore that although female equality has not yet been fully achieved in Hollywood cinema, the object of research demonstrates that there are substantial evolutions about the representation of contemporary women.