Abstract

SILVA, Breno César de Almeida da  and  TILIO, Rafael De. O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain e Boi Neon: paisagens, masculinidades e normatividades de gênero. La ventana [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.48, pp.168-205. ISSN 1405-9436.

The objective of this research was to understand the discourses about male gender and heteronormativity in two specific films: Brokeback Mountain (USA) and Boi Neon (Brazil). Both were analyzed from the concepts of performativity, citation and subversion of heteronormativity proposed by Judith Butler. Although produced in different geographic settings and historical moments they present similar gender landscapes (set of environmental, social, historical and ideological subjectivity elements) about the masculinity constitution. Brokeback Mountain cowboys are overmasculinized (virile, hard-working, and aggressive) who, even having sex do not consider themselves homosexual - because they are married and have children with women; likewise, Boi Neon sertanejos also plays heterosexual men typical roles despite adopting attitudes that are not considered correct for their genders. Thus, both films taken as gender technologies (tactics of identification for the subjects) produces tensions to the compulsory heteronormativity and hegemonic masculinity, constituting as an important producer and legitimating device of gender subjectivities.

Keywords : gender identity; masculinity; sexuality; homosexuality; motion picture as topic.

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