Projecting Gender: sexualities in contemporary cinema

• Grant number: 12/12644-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Roberto Arruda de Menezes
• Grantee: Cristian Carla Bernava
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/26060-2 - Decentring queer cinema: critical contributions to the analytics of sexual differences in contemporary cinema, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Since mid-1990s, images presenting sexualities and interpersonal relationships that pose questions to the hegemonic imaginary of the relationships between the sexes have proliferated in cinemas from many parts around the world. This research project aims to investigate how these cinemas symbolically elaborate the problem of sexual diversity in relation to such imaginary, considering as sexual diversity images those of interpersonal relationships between heterosexuals that challenge the hegemonic imaginary and those frequently associated to the concept of sexual diversity and that present the so called homosexual "minorities".

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BERNAVA, Cristian Carla. Projecting gender: sexualities in cinema during the transition to the twenty-first century. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.