CORPOS ENQUADRADOS: AIDS E CORPOREIDADE EM FILMES NARRATIVOS / FRAMED BODIES: AIDS AND CORPORALITY IN NARRATIVE MOVIES

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2007

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This study tends to investigate the social imagery created upon the body of the people affected by the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and formed from narrative films featured during the last 26 years. Firstly, I discuss about the bodily subjectivity processes, from the theoretical framework established by Mikhail Bakhtin, through the Merleau- Ponty´s phenomenology and in the course of Michel Foucault´s studies over the history of sexuality and biopolitics. The reading of the authors who dedicated their attention to the interconnections among subjectivity and cinema, as well as the ones who discussed the language´s role within the constitution of the subjectivity, offered me the basis for this research´s methodological framework. Thus, the selected films´ analysis tries to identify the images, representations, metaphors and meanings that were collectively built since the beginning of the epidemic, throughout a dialogue among these cultural productions and the authors who were interested on the discourses over the epidemic, within the medical science and the political AIDS activism. I locate, then, the assemblage of representations over AIDS and their relation with corporality into four categories, as follows: a) the difficult to make sense to the experiences related to illness, as long as it is not perceived within the affected body; b) the subject´s relation with the symptoms which appear alongside the body, making visible the disease, for the wronged as well as for the other; c) the possible reactions in face of imminent death , and the subjective responses to deal with the guilty and the social prejudice and; d) the resistance strategies that don´t try to overcome death, but, instead, search for new meanings to it, by implicating the corporality in an active production process, of power.

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homoeroticism psychology modos de subjetivacao psicologia social psychology homoerotismo psicologia social subjectivities process

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