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ADAMATTI, Margarida Maria. The discourse on adultery in The drunkard by Gilda de Abreu and Vicente Celestino: The representation of women in cinema and theater. Debate fem. [online]. 2024, vol.67, pp.67-94.  Epub 24-Mar-2025. ISSN 2594-066X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2024.67.2362.

Gilda de Abreu was the second woman to direct a film in Brazil. The article analyzes the discourse on female adultery as a cause of male ruin in the film O Ébrio/The Drunkard (1946) by Gilda de Abreu and in the two versions of the homonymous play (1941, 1947) by Vicente Celestino, Gilda’s husband. Although the couple’s collaborative authorship lasted for almost forty years, the proposal seeks to locate interstitial moments of representation of the woman within the narrative voices in the three available versions. Using the documentation available in archives and an unprecedented analysis of the censorship of the play, the study is based on the articulation between the composition of the female character, the discourse analysis applied to the field of cinema and the feminist theory of cinema in search of flaws in the representation of female sexuality.

Palabras llave : The Drunkard; Gilda de Abreu; Vicente Celestino; Brazilian Cinema; Representation of Women.

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