Foreclosed transgender

the representation of the dynamics of violence in Alice Júnior and una Mujer Fantástica

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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2763-9398.2025v24n.72981

Keywords:

transgender, latin american cinema, power relations, subject foreclosure

Abstract

How have dissident subjects been represented in Latin American cinema? Based on this question, the films Alice Júnior (2019) and Una Mujer Fantástica (2017) were chosen as the object of study, addressing the relationships between the protagonists and social institutions. The research aims to identify the power relations present in a hegemonic discursive field about the transgender, focused on the main characters, Alice and Marina. The methodology is qualitative, based on an interpretative analysis of discursive aspects related to the transgender, identifying scenes that highlight the power relations in which the characters are immersed, and where the foreclosure of the subject and the violence are addressed to the trans bodies. Cinema presents itself as a form of reflection and refraction of power relations in contemporary society, producing new perspectives and questions about trans subjectivity.

 

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Author Biographies

Luan Ximenes Dias, PUC-Campinas

Master in Languages, Media and Art at the School of Linguage and Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas). Specialist in Strategic Corporate Communication and Crisis Management at the Armando Alvares Penteado University Center (FAAP). Graduated in Public Relations from PUC-Campinas. Member of the research group Entre(dis)courses: subjects and languages, with research lines in languages, poetics and technologies. It develops research based on the themes of discourse, subjectivity and identity, with special interest in queer, transgender and transvestite studies.

Eliane Righi de Andrade, PUC-Campinas

Professor at the Escola de Linguagem e Comunicação, in Literature courses and in the interdisciplinary Master of Linguagens, media and art of PUC-Campinas, where she develops research on the themes of discourse, subjectivity, identity and memory, in the relationship with socially minority groups. Possessed Bachelor's Degree in Portuguese and English Literature from USP (1986/1988); Master in Education from PUC-Campinas (2003) and Master in Applied Linguistics from Unicamp (2008). I made this Post-doctoral study at Unicamp (2012), working with the representations of people in different media discourses and their life narratives. He currently coordinates, together with Professor Tarcísio Silva, the group of Studies of Race, Culture and Decoloniality at the Center for African and Afro-Brazilian Studies Dr. Nícea Quintano Amaro of PUC-Campinas; He is a member of the GT Prásticas Identitárias na Linguística Aplicada, of ANPOLL, and of the inter-institutional network DiASPoRA - Discourses of/about Acolhimento: Saber, Poder, Refugio e Alteridade, which develops research with narratives of subjects in situations of vulnerability.

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2025-09-24

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XIMENES DIAS, Luan; RIGHI DE ANDRADE, Eliane. Foreclosed transgender: the representation of the dynamics of violence in Alice Júnior and una Mujer Fantástica. Culturas Midiáticas, [S. l.], v. 24, 2025. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.2763-9398.2025v24n.72981. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/cm/article/view/72981. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2026.

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Vol. 24 (2025): Thematic Dossier: Alterities and Communication Practices: different ways of thinking, representing, mediating and narrating the other(s)

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Representações midiáticas da diferença

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