Representation and stereotypes of black women in Brazilian cinema

• Autor(a) principal: Candido, Marcia Rangel
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Feres Júnior, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/1806-9584-2019v27n254549

This article presents a feminist critique of the Brazilian film industry through the analysis of therepresentation of black women in the highest-grossing movies over the last years. Our effort is divided in three parts: first, we review the literature on gender and race in Brazilian film, showing that the interplay between these categories has been seldom explored and the few works that do it suffer from methodological flaws; then we make a descriptive quantitative analysis on the profile of the top-grossing movies produced in Brazil; and, finally, we propose a typology of stereotypes associated with black and brown female protagonists. The results allow us to conclude that black women are still severely underpresented and predominantly represented by negative stereotypes that convey oversexualization,mischievousness, and domesticity.