A construção do erotismo do corpo feminino no cinema da pornochanchada

Abstract

Known as the seventh art, cinema, whose main function is to tell stories and record events in a dynamic way is considered a didactic resource of great visual and documentary richness. Thus, this article is a brief analysis of the cinematic genre that achieved great success in the 1970s, the period of Military Regime in Brazil, characterized by drastic deprivation in the cultural and social realm. revolutionized the big screens and also the female class of the country, this genre became known as Pornochanchada. Obtaining great popular adherence, by combining comedy with eroticism and having as a background the artifice of nudity, mainly female, contrary to the conjuncture of the time, marked by austere patriarchal conservatism. Thus, the woman's body that has always been so surrounded by taboos, now gains a new way of being seen and debated, but always under the masculinized and capitalist look of producers and film directors. Assuming that the possibility of reflection of the previous experience is a fundamental resource for analysis of the current moment, we sought to reflect on the historical construction of the eroticism of the female body in Brazil, having as its cut the influence of pornochanchada.