URBAN BODIES: MOVIES, SUPERHEROES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MALE BODY "WELL-TONED"

Authors

  • VALQUIRIA DA SILVA BARROS
  • ROSANE CRISTINA DE OLIVEIRA
  • RENATO DA SILVA

Keywords:

body, city, cinema, consumer

Abstract


This article presents a reflection about the representations of muscular male body "healed" in order to understand the forms displayed by these men have man's body characteristics "common", or if it is the result of a media phenomenon of redefinition of body, against the stereotype of male beauty, contemporary widespread by the film industry through the production of superheroes based films in comic books (comics), exhibiting muscular, agile, flexible and inexhaustible bodies and thus could influence men youth and adults to sculpt their bodies like their heroes

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TRABALHOS PUBLICADOS

How to Cite

URBAN BODIES: MOVIES, SUPERHEROES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MALE BODY "WELL-TONED". (2016). Fiep Bulletin - Online, 86(1). https://ojs.fiepbulletin.net/fiepbulletin/article/view/86.a1.66