La Majorité Opprimée: irony and inversion in the critic to female and male image

Author(s)

Bárbara Melissa Santana

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Araraquara. 2017-03-22.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara
• Defense date: 2017-01-23
• Advisor: Luciane de Paula

Abstract

This work turns to the discursive analysis of the french short film La Majorité Opprimée, directed by Eleonore Pourriat and released on the social network Youtube. The video selected as corpus of this research explores the female and male gender relations from the inversion of the gender performance in the contemporary society. This inversion that bases the critical narrative and ironizes the gender inequality naturalized in this relations in the contemporary world, in specific, the twenty-first french society. By hightlitening the inversion and irony in the video as the object of the analysis, we go deeper in the studies of femininity and masculinity stereotypes represented in La Majorité Opprimée, and we turn to the analysis of the patriarchy critical that is made in the short movie from the gender performance inversion. The dedication to this problems consider the male and female gender historical constitution, that is articulated to the cultural and historical contextualization throughout the history. This work is fundamented in the verbocovisual materialities that are part of the enunciate analyzed, with theoretical basis in the Bakhtin Circle studies about enunciate, ideological sign, subject, dialogy and discursive gender, in addition to references from Judith Butlers and Simoe de Beauvoir studies. From the bakhtinian base, we consider the subjects semiotized in the video as male and female representation from the contemporary world, and we understand them as historical and social constructions, element that conducts this work. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/11895-4 - La majorité Opprimée: a bakhtinian analysis of daily male chauvinism
• Grantee: Bárbara Melissa Santana
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master