O corpo com deficiência física e a intercorporeidade no cinema: uma abordagem fenomenológica

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Belo, Ana Zélia Alves Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO
• Palavras-chave em Português: Corpo; Deficiência física; Intercorporeidade; Estesiologia; Cinema; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29671

The thesis addresses the body with physical disability, highlighting intercorporeality through the art of filmmaking in a phenomenological approach. We believe that the movie experience can mobilize the viewer's gaze in order to relearn how to see the world, resigning knowledge, feelings, values and attitudes from the coexistence with others - the latter, in turn, represented by the characters of the film in its otherness. The notion of body, affectivity and intercorporeality proposed by the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) helps us in the interpretation of film images, especially in understanding the experiences lived by the characters. These experiences, described in the research in the form of images and scene descriptions, consider affectivity not as a mosaic of sensations or feelings, but as the way in which we affect and are affected. In this way, things, people, feelings, situations and places make sense to us, gain meaning in the context of our existence and mobilize the sharing of subjective and intersubjective, historical, social and cultural senses. Movies present this potentiality to set us in motion, to dislocate and amplify our perception of phenomena by means of intercorporeality, the possibility that the human body has of interposing itself before the world; since it is made of the same upholstery as the body of the world. In this context, we highlight the objectives of the research: to perceive other ways of seeing, thinking and being a body with physical disability through film characters; to understand intercorporeality in affective and social relationships through cinematographic works; to analyze film images that approach the physical disability as a way to expand the understanding of the human body beyond the biological or medical aspect through the notion of intercorporeality. In the research process, we elaborated sheets of analysis of the films that, together with the experience of exhibition of discussion of films, in the Project of Cinestesia Extension, of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, contributes to the process of phenomenological reduction of the research; as well as to the initial and continued formation in several areas of knowledge. In the research process, the appreciation of cinematographic works with the theme of the physically handicapped person was considered emblematic for the study of phenomenological notions of the body, including intercorporeality: The Elephant Man, Extraordinary, Rust and Bone, The Scuba and the Butterfly, My Left Foot, As I was before you and Untouchables. We recognize in the film images relevant aspects to understand the intercorporeality of people with physical disabilities as a possibility to re-read to see the world in our human and existential condition. Thus, the body with physical disability is not reduced to an anatomical or physiological deformation, but presents itself as a form of subjectivity that puts into motion our way of being and being in the world in synergy with others.