“Crimes passionais” ou feminicídios? A espetacularização romantizada da violência de gênero nos assassinatos de Eloá Cristina e Mércia Nakashima na mídia televisiva

Abstract

This work analyzes the phenomenon of spectacularization of gender violence instrumentalized by the television media through the cases of Eloá Pimentel and Mércia Nakashima, broadcast by the programs A Tarde é Sua, Brasil Urgente, Hoje em Dia and Jornal Nacional. The analysis aims to conceive how the system of using gender representations and stereotypes transforms the phenomenon of passion into a mediatic and romanticized spectacle that reproduces historically constructed gender inequalities in the social imaginary. With this, the study problematizes the media discourse, highlighting the disqualification of the “crime of passion” and attributes the crime of femicide to the analyzed cases. Thus, the documentary scope analyzed brings a theoretical-methodological angle, focusing on the interdisciplinary relationship of History, Law, Theory of Social Representations, the bases of the New Cultural History and the History of the Present Time. Thus, it results in an essay on how the spectacularization of gender violence matches the symbolism of the murder of women, by validating how the reports made for the cases of Eloá Pimentel and Mércia Nakashima emphasize the traditional aspects of passion in the social imaginary.