Cross-dressing and Transgressing
The Queer Body in Madame Satã
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcus D Welsh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-136 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x20988717 |
| OpenAlex | W3150959814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In Karim Aïnouz's debut feature film Madame Satã (2002), the protagonist yearns to be a cross-dressing performer. Based on the historical figure João Francisco dos Santos, the protagonist is black, poor, gay, and a criminal in the Brazil of the 1930s. An examination of his body as a nexus of these factors and the film's portrayal of it in the context of queer theory, film history, and social discourses of gender, race, and class and in cinematic terms demonstrates that, while he is able to express his fluid gender identity temporarily through performance, the protagonist is unable to escape his social position as regulated by the intersectionality of his gender identity with other factors. En el primer largometraje de Karim Aïnouz, Madame Satã (2002), el protagonista anhela ser un artista travesti. Basado en la figura histórica de João Francisco dos Santos, dicho protagonista es negro, pobre, homosexual y criminal en el Brasil de la década de 1930. El artículo analiza su cuerpo como nexo entre estos factores y la manera en que es representado en la película a partir de una perspectiva teórica queer, de la historia del cine y los discursos sociales de género, raza y clase, así como de la técnica cinematográfica. Si por un lado el personaje es capaz de expresar su fluida identidad de género temporalmente a través de la interpretación, por otro es incapaz de escapar su posición social, la cual está regulada por la interseccionalidad entre su identidad de género y otros factores
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · Gender identity · Humanities · Identity (music) · Intersectionality · Queer · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Sexuality, and Education · History
| Highly cited | No |
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