As teólogas feministas vão ao cinema: um estudo teológico-feminista do filme Mãe!

Abstract

The articulation between gender and religion in the construction of the diegetic universe of the film mãe! [mother!] by Darren Aronofsky is the theme of this dissertation. The work is a reinterpretation of the narratives present in the Bible about Creation associated with the relationship of humanity with nature. Thus, it starts with the assumption that the film articulates religious and gender elements to problematize and interrelate patriarchal power relations and the way human beings relate to the ecosystem. Thus, to carry out the research, the hermeneutic and theoretical method of ecofeminist theology was adopted, associated with the dense description of the film. Cinema has agreed on its language codes based on gender conceptions based on a patriarchal system. Throughout its history, religious elements have also played an important role in the construction of cinematographic language. These assertions made it possible to study how cinema appropriates, articulates and reproduces certain religious themes and gender markers in its language. Divided into three chapters, the work presents: the relationship between the history of cinema, religious groups and gender; the identification of the elements of gender and religion in the construction of the diegetic universe of the movie mãe! [mother!]; and, finally, the analysis of these elements from the perspective of ecofeminist theology studies to demonstrate how their epistemology is a tool that contributes to new readings about the divine, the ecosystem and the relationship between men and women.