O corpo alienígena no entre-lugar mídias e artes: uma análise das personagens de Jornada nas Estrelas

Abstract

This study aims to understand the continuities and discontinuities in the historical representation of the monstrous / alien bodies in the dialogue among the television, theatrical and cinematic language, seeking thus the betweenplace distance that goes along the body in a transversal direction in the spaces between these languages based on the Star Trek television series of the 1960s, the street theater project "Trek In The Park" (2009-2013), and the eponymous to the show, the film of (2009). These three artistic-media objects have been a change in the perception of the monstrous body. Down through history, this body was seen in various artistic productions as representing the ugly and producer of fear of felt, embarrassment and laughter. The analysis corpus presupposes a change to look at these bodies in contemporary times, because it is a period in which we are witnessing a major role of minorities, such as gays, blacks and women, and greater visibility of the monstrous body - now a generator of positive identification - in the areas of performance and the overall scene. Therefore, the specific objectives are: to go historically through the monstrous body of conceptions, to relate the concepts of body in contemporary times, and to analyze the production of senses and political investment in alien bodies. Thus, the theoretical and methodological path is constituted through intericonic movement proposed by Courtine (2013), which refers to images that are linked to the internal memory (memories) and external (various images viewed). As the concept of device, of Foucault (1979), understood as the network that interconnects speeches, institutions, philosophical or moral propositions, scientific statements, etc. As well as the expanded and updated concept by Agamben (2009). Thus, I analyze, two episodes of Star Trek also staged by the Theatre Company "Trek in the Park: Amok Time" and "Journey to Babel", looking in depth to debate about the body of Vulcan and his gestual. Finally, I conclude the character Spock as controversial and with anti-hero characteristics.