Representações sobre a mulher no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo

Abstract

The paper presents and analyses an inventory with twenty five Brazilian contemporary movies which makes representations about the woman. The fictional elaboration about the woman on cinema shows that your paper on the society has being changed. If in another times of the Brazilian cinema the female was treated as the fragile sex, associated to the idea of object woman, submitted to the man, on the actual films the woman have assumed a paper of protagonist in the gender relationships.