E eu não sou uma super-heroína? Uma análise de super-heróis contra-hegemônicos, ao longo de 27 anos, em transposições cinematográficas de quadrinhos

Abstract

The present work addresses how counter-hegemonic protagonists in film adaptations of comic books have gained more relevance in the first quarter of the 21st century. Thus, we organized the research with a gradual presentation of three fundamental ruptures in the cinematic imagination of heroism, with films starring: Black men, White women, and Black women. In this sense, the protagonism of Black women can be seen as the main rupture in this context. We conducted the critical thinking exercise of hooks (2020) on the selected audiovisual works to evaluate whether they present any character that can be considered pejorative or not. For this, we used the script studies cataloged in "O Poder do Clímax" (2017) by Luiz Carlos Maciel, to analyze the character profiles, costumes, and narrative arcs in all the films. Then, we examined these elements through a counter-hegemonic theoretical perspective of authors such as hooks (2023), Kilomba (2019), Mbembe (2018), Tucherman (2001), Haraway (2019), and Boticci (2014). At the end of the work, we found that the number of counter-hegemonic protagonists increased, but it is still lower than the number of hegemonic protagonists. Some film productions present elements that can be seen as pejorative, but in many cases, we noticed a certain concern with a careful projection of these characters that expand the imagination of who represents the heroic figure.