Mulheres em cozinhas profissionais: imaginário e conflitos de gênero no filme Os sabores do Palácio

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to understand the tensions between the imaginary created around women as holders of knowledge related to cooking and the reality of professional kitchens full of men, based on the film Haute Cuisine (Les saveurs du Palais, France, 2012), a film by Christian Vincent. Starting from the teories of Castoriadis and Durand about imaginary, combining with Bourdieu’s concepts of male domination and Claudine Haroche’s insidious violence, we develop a methodology based on a filmic analysis, both semiotic, developed by Christian Metz, and stylistic, proposed by David Bordwell, articulating together with the bibliographical research the concepts of gender, imaginary, male domination and gastronomy. It was possible to see that there is a dispute over the field (kitchen) and power relations involved in this game, consisting of struggles for space, positions and interests, which are camouflaged in a certain type of conduct, at first harmless, but which over time, the differences in vision between men and women who occupy positions of power within these kitchens are intensified.