A objetificação da mulher nas adaptações cinematográficas de Iracema

Abstract

This study approaches the objectification of women in the cinema from the films Iracema, uma transa amazônica (1974) and Iracema, a virgem dos lábios de mel (1979). Bibliographic research was carried out about socialpolitical context of Brazil in the 1970s and film analysis based on feminist theory of cinema, with the main guidelines by Laura Mulvey, Molly Haskel, Claire Johnston and Mary Ann Doane. The results pointed out that, even when dealing with films with different proposals, since once has a political intent of social denunciation and the other reflects canonical film adaptation, both show signs of the objectivation process of women in the construction of the protagonist. The highlights the pre-existence of misogynistic processes in the production of contemporary cinema. We conclude that the feminist theory of cinema follows as a relevant critical reference to analysis and film re-readings.