O protagonismo feminino proativo nas narrativas audiovisuais de ficção científica

Abstract

The present study aims to develop a model of analysis of female protagonism in audiovisual narratives. The model intends to identify the presence of proactive female protagonism and its performance within the narrative. Based on the concept of Proactive Feminine Protagonism, the female protagonist is an active participant in the plot, playing or not a leadership role, represented in an equivalent way to the male protagonists, and exerting influence and relevance in the events of the narrative. The chosen cut was the universe of science fiction, in which the dystopic genre is evidenced in the audiovisual productions. The films Hunger Games (2012) are used as analysis objects; Catching Fire (2013); The Hope: Part 1 (2014); The hope: the end (2015). To analyze the narrative arc of these dystopias, we use the scheme adapted by Vogler (2015) from Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. In the analysis of the protagonist Katniss (Hunger Games); contextualizes the formation of identity based on Castells (2013) and Butler (2016). Using the content analysis method, it investigates symbolic phenomena through coding and categorization. The procedure adopted is the case study, A through Narrative Studies (in the media) and the feminist studies to identify structures, elements and similarities in the analyzed audiovisual pieces. As a data collection technique, from the perspective of feminist studies, it presents the compilation of data collected through interviews, aiming to identify perceptions of different publics about the empirical object (Voracious Games), generating 1119 interviews. The results point to divergences about the presence of female protagonism in the audiovisual perceived by men and women, as well as the main positive and negative characteristics perceived by the public. The divergence between the masculine and feminine looks on the mediated woman evidences the imbalance in the representations of gender of the audiovisual.