Mulheres olímpicas: cinema brasileiro, mulheres atletas e teoria feminista do cinema

Abstract

Our research arises from the need to understand the social, and audiovisual production on the female athletes and their possible relationship with the Feminist Theory of Cinema. After conducting a survey of Brazilian works that address the theme of Brazilian female athlete by access Brazilian film libraries and the Internet, defined as a general goal of our work is to analyze the Brazilian cinematographic work "Mulheres Olímpicas", establishing their possible relationships with feminist theory cinema. We build a contextual analysis of the work through Gumbrecht studies. Our analysis of data sheets were organized in two stages. The first time was composed of objects and the conditions of the aesthetic experience of the film discussed from the filmic text elements. The second time, governed by the content and effects of the aesthetic experience, was divided into the categories that emerge from the Bardin content analysis, namely: sex inequality; devaluation of the athlete; political struggles and space conquests; different Brazilian women; objects and symbolic brands and; ignorance of the history of Brazilian Olympic sport. In studying the categories, we conclude that the documentary not only has relations with the Theory Feminist Cinema, as portrayed by images of women Brazilian athletes who have long been overshadowed by its media visibility and that tax the emergence of this theory, make more generous looks to problematize the social spaces occupied by women predominate in the work.