The representation of women who resist dictatorship in contemporary cinema: an analysis of the films A memória que me contam (2012) and Hoje (2013)

Abstract

This article considers cinema as a communicational instrument of historiographical value and, therefore, analyzes not only the textual material of the films A memória que me contam (2012) and Hoje (2013) but also the  context  in  which  they  were  produced, following  the communicational  circuit model proposed by Américo and Villela (2013). The objective is to understand how the woman who resisted the military dictatorship of 1964 is represented  by  contemporary cinema.  And  through the analysis of the sequences of these two films, one can notice common characteristics in the representation of the female figures that star in them. It is understood that this character is represented as a survivor, as a receptacle of the memory  of  what  happened  during  the  regime, which is configured in the form of trauma and suffering. She is also a figure in which the female condition, as seen at the time in patriarchal parameters, needs to be discarded as a form of empowerment or it will be considered a transgression punishable by punishment.