VISIBILITIES AND HETEROTOPIAS IN THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

DECOLONIAL FEMINIST READINGS

Authors

Keywords:

Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Feminist Film Theories, Coloniality of Gender, Feminist Heterotopias

Abstract

This article investigates the crossings of the notion of Coloniality of Gender, elaborated by María Lugones (2007; 2014) in the diegeses of two superproductions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther (2018) and Captain Marvel (2019), starting from the concept of “heterotopias” by Michel Foucault (2003), and the work of Margareth Rago (2006) on“ feminist heterotopias ”. It explores the possibilities offered by film materiality to weave feminist readings. In these movies, especially with regard to the visibility of female subjects, it is remarkable how the characters, in their narrative functions and their performances, for example, tension certain hegemonic patterns and negotiate with neoliberal structures. Intertwining utopian temporalities and spatialities with real historical and territorial memories, they mobilize visual signs and discourses that allows us to think about possible feminist heterotopies of collective resistance in contemporary contexts. In the effort to historicize these experiences of representation, Feminist Film Theories Cinema do not fully embrace the dimension of the constitutive coloniality of “gender”. This work starts with a brief theoretical review of this field, seeking to expand to the intersectional approach a problematization of the crossings of coloniality in Hollywood pop culture, in order to find horizons for a pluriversal feminist perspective.

Author Biography

Letícia Moreira de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas/Mestrado em Multimeios

Master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Multimedia (Multimeios), at the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in the line of research in History, Aesthetics and Domains of Application of Cinema and Photography. Facilitator (Scholarship) in the Didactic-Pedagogical Training Program for distance learning courses at the Virtual University of the State of São Paulo (UNIVESP). She has a degree in Communication, with a degree in Production in Communication and Culture, from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Studied the Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts at UFBA. She was an Audiovisual Producer at the Distance Education Superintendence (SEAD) / UFBA, between 2016 and 2018. She was a researcher at the GRIM Group (Research Group Reception and Image Criticism), at the Faculty of Communication at UFBA (2012-2018). During his undergraduate degree in Communication, he received a scientific initiation scholarship from the Young Talents for Science Program (CAPES), between 2012-2013, and PIBIC fellow between 2013-2015.

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Published

2020-11-09

How to Cite

Moreira de Oliveira, L. (2020). VISIBILITIES AND HETEROTOPIAS IN THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: DECOLONIAL FEMINIST READINGS. TROPOS: COMUNICAÇÃO, SOCIEDADE E CULTURA (ISSN: 2358-212X), 9(2). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufac.br/index.php/tropos/article/view/3960

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Section

Dossiê - Potências políticas do pop: gênero e ativismo na cultura pop