From the closet to the movie theater: an analysis of movie posters with a gay subject

• Grant number: 15/07837-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2015
• End date: January 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Arnaldo Cortina
• Grantee: Leonardo Erivelto Soares de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of our study is to apprehend the meaning of movie posters of two recent productions that deal with homoerotic relationships between boys / men: Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho (2014) and Praia do Futuro (2014). In addition, we intend to determine the images of the enunciator and the enunciatee that can be inferred from the structure of such discursive configurations. For this purpose, we will apply the tools and concepts of Greimassian semiotics. We will examine the content plane of both the visual and the verbal language with the tools of the generative trajectory of meaning, which is a method that consists in going from the simple to the complex, passing by the fundamental, narrative and discursive levels. We will investigate the expression plane of the visual language with the scheme suggested by Greimas for plastic semiotics, taking into account the eidetic, chromatic and topological aspects.