| dc.description.abstract | This study aims to understand the continuities and discontinuities in the
historical representation of the monstrous / alien bodies in the dialogue among
the television, theatrical and cinematic language, seeking thus the betweenplace
distance that goes along the body in a transversal direction in the spaces
between these languages based on the Star Trek television series of the 1960s,
the street theater project "Trek In The Park" (2009-2013), and the eponymous
to the show, the film of (2009). These three artistic-media objects have been a
change in the perception of the monstrous body. Down through history, this
body was seen in various artistic productions as representing the ugly and
producer of fear of felt, embarrassment and laughter. The analysis corpus
presupposes a change to look at these bodies in contemporary times, because
it is a period in which we are witnessing a major role of minorities, such as gays,
blacks and women, and greater visibility of the monstrous body - now a
generator of positive identification - in the areas of performance and the overall
scene. Therefore, the specific objectives are: to go historically through the
monstrous body of conceptions, to relate the concepts of body in contemporary
times, and to analyze the production of senses and political investment in alien
bodies. Thus, the theoretical and methodological path is constituted through
intericonic movement proposed by Courtine (2013), which refers to images that
are linked to the internal memory (memories) and external (various images
viewed). As the concept of device, of Foucault (1979), understood as the
network that interconnects speeches, institutions, philosophical or moral
propositions, scientific statements, etc. As well as the expanded and updated
concept by Agamben (2009). Thus, I analyze, two episodes of Star Trek also
staged by the Theatre Company "Trek in the Park: Amok Time" and "Journey to
Babel", looking in depth to debate about the body of Vulcan and his gestual.
Finally, I conclude the character Spock as controversial and with anti-hero
characteristics. | |
