Mulher e heroína: representação feminina da personagem Katniss Everdeen, de Jogos Vorazes

Abstract

The Hunger Games was published on 14 September 2008 in the United States with the authorship of the American writer Suzanne Collins. In 2010 the Studio LionsGate acquired the rights for a film adaptation of the books, which became the 14th highest-grossing release in North America. The story, which is a dystopia, takes place in a futuristic period not defined and has as protagonist a woman. Through content and film analysis, this project seeks to analyze as the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen is represented taking into consideration studies about gender It is unlikely that changes in female stereotypes are part of the narrative structures of filmmaking, the protagonist flees the feature "damsel in distress" and the filmic production participates actively in the process of building genres. Note that fiction follows the changes in social representations regarding the role of women and the character brings some innovations, but it is still possible to realize permanence in relation to the idea of female and such stereotypes.