Corpos que perturbam: a representação do corpo na contemporaneidade a partir de Má educação e a Pele que habito

Abstract

The body, its representations and meanings act as the role of historical research object, especially this research that its intention is to understand how the body representations are constructed in contemporary films as from La mala Educacion (2004) and La piel que habito (2011). The authorial cinematography of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar makes possible to question inquiries about several issues, especially regarding the body construction and representation, as from the filmic analysis of his work it is possible to identify the issues of construction of subjectivity and the way which the subject is made available to the social field and crossed by regulatory and disciplinary knowledge-power devices. For the methodological work, first of all, it was necessary to think of cinema as discourse and, above all, as a gender technology (Lauretis, 2008), in other words, they are strategies of knowledge / power to reorient the configuration of structures and forge identities recreating the real. In the archaeo-genealogy of discursive practices it is possible to understand how the knowledge and representations of the body were constructed until the contemporary time. Therefore, the proposition of this research is done with the effort to seek the subjective processes that occur over time and cause cracks in engineered structures of modernity.