O olhar feminino no cinema: A Mulher sem Cabeça de Lucrecia Martel

Abstract

The representativeness of women proposed by the female gaze is necessary to reconfigure ideologies of the patriarchal society in the dominant cinema. This work presents a film that exemplifies the construction of women, from the perspective of the female gaze, as well as the importance of greater insertion of women in the cinematographic market to validate the representativeness and female identity in films. Thus, reflections on the feminine roles in film productions are presented, departing from the questions of feminist theorists of cinema and, also, the contributions of the Feminist Movement in studies on the female subject. In order to achieve the aforementioned objective, an analysis of the film The Headless Woman (2008) by director Lucrecia Martel is proposed. The plot of the movie makes it possible to discuss the social construction of women.