Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: NATHALIA FIGUEIREDO DE OLIVEIRA BRITO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : NATHALIA FIGUEIREDO DE OLIVEIRA BRITO
DATE: 24/09/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: on line
TITLE:

DUALITY BETWEEN THE GROTESQUE AND THE EROTIC: THE FEMALE BODY AS ICONOPHAGICAL MEDIA IN BATTLE ANGEL ALITA

KEY WORDS:

media studies; body; image; Battle Angel Alita; cyberpunk.

PAGES: 63
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Comunicação Visual
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates the female body as a medium in Japanese cyberpunk, taking Battle Angel Alita (Yukito Kishiro, 1990–1995) as the main corpus, based on Baitelli's notion of an iconophagic body that devours and is devoured by images; combines semiotics of culture (Lotman; Kirchof), body-media/iconophagy (Baitello), posthumanism (Haraway; Hayles; Braidotti) and gender and horror studies (Kristeva; Creed; Dumas) to model the structuring tension between eroticism and grotesque. Methodologically, it applies a reading of sequential art informed by a matrix of categories: iconophagy, eroticism/abjection, technological grotesque and post-human agency, coding panels, pages and sequences.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2178719 - MARCELO BOLSHAW GOMES
Interno - 1789369 - BRENO DA SILVA CARVALHO
Interna - 1694773 - VALQUIRIA APARECIDA PASSOS KNEIPP
Externo à Instituição - GUILHERME MARIANO MARTINS DA SILVA - URCA