AS TRANSFORMAÇÕES DE ARLEQUINA: As representações do feminino nas mídias de entretenimento

• Autor(a) principal: BARBOSA, TAYNAH IBANEZ
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1965
• topic: Imaginário. Transmídia. Feminilidade; Dominação Masculina; Quadrinhos; Arlequina; Mulher; Comunicação; Semiótica; Imaginary. Transmedia; Femininity; Male Domination; Comics. Harley Quinn; Woman; Comunication; Semiotic; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

The present study has as object the analysis of female imaginary’s representation transmitted by the fictional character Harley Quinn, originating from Batman: the animated series (1992), that expanded for the comics, games and cinema. With the character’s big popularity, and it’s considerably short time that enables an more punctual analysis, the intention of this dissertation is to find it’s many transformations since it’s origins until nowadays, considering it’s transmedia nature through the analysis of the principals and more significative medias that Harley Quinn was present. To achieve this goal, was studied the process of modifications of female characters’ representations of super-hero’s gender, identifying the socio-historical contexts that influenced those transformations, using mainly Madrid (2016) and Oliveira (2007). For the discussion about gender’s imaginary, the analysis sustains itself thanks to the studies of Durand (2002), referent to the concepts of Social Imaginary; Beauvoir (2016), that discuss about the woman’s image in many social, politc and cientific ambit; and Bourdieu (2002), about the elements of Male Domination. The method used is Peirce’s semiotics, considering the social elements represented in the medias as indexes. The results showed the big focus on the discussion about domestic violence, and the journey faced by women to get free from the abuses, what was happening with the social modifications while public’s mentality was changing, however, this representation of violence was always showed in a negative way by the characters creators. The character is narratively in a main triangle, wich transmits the interaction of victim with tree different representations of feminine and masculine, being them; The Joker while the dominator man that violents, The Batman whilw the dominator that represents the role of protective father, and Poison Ivy, with who did the role of woman who guides the character to total freedom through of the concept’s representation of sororidade