Banca de DEFESA: VANESSA PAULA TRIGUEIRO MOURA

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STUDENT : VANESSA PAULA TRIGUEIRO MOURA
DATE: 07/04/2026
TIME: 18:00
LOCAL: DECOM
TITLE:

INDEPENDENT BRAZILIAN WEB SERIES: FROM CARTOGRAPHY TO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF SERIALIZED FICTION PRODUCTIONS FEATURING LESBIAN NARRATIVES

KEY WORDS:

brazilian web series; lesbian narratives; independent audiovisual; visibility; dissident sexualities.

 

PAGES: 225
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates the consolidation and impacts of independent Brazilian web series featuring lesbian protagonists, observing how these productions operate within the tension between the rupture and the maintenance of audiovisual normativities. The research begins with the contextualization of independent audiovisual production in the country, followed by an in-depth discussion on the evolution of academic debates regarding the conceptualization and characterization of web series, establishing a dialogue especially with Zanetti (2013) and Hergesel (2016, 2018, 2021). The central objective is to understand how this format, distributed on collaborative platforms such as YouTube, differentiates itself from hegemonic television grammar, inaugurates new productive and aesthetic arrangements, and institutes new economies of visibility for dissident sexualities. Methodologically, I acknowledge the space of subjectivity in the research and deploy cartography as a method that traces the transformational movements of the landscape (Rolnik, 2011), articulated with the cataloging of web series production centered on lesbian narratives over the last decade (2014-2024). This process culminates in the qualitative analysis of a corpus composed of wide-reaching productions awarded at the Rio Webfest: the web series RED, SEPTO, Stupid Wife, Os Signos da Minha Ex and Nina. Grounded in Foucaultian thought (1988, 2012) on sexuality, discourse and power, the intersectional matrix of Collins and Bilge (2021), and Butler’s (2018) discussions on gender performativity, the study reveals a complex scenario. The results show that web series establish an explicit discourse in the materialization of lesbian desire and an aesthetics of naturalization of affections, breaking with the ambivalent visibility and the interdictions characteristic of traditional serialized television fiction. Conversely, I also observe the maintenance of normative sanitization processes, marked by the reality of the protagonists' class privileges and the reiteration of the ideal of thinness and whiteness—a standard tensioned by SEPTO, a web series that also breaks the productive hegemony of the Rio-São Paulo axis. Finally, I conclude that these narratives configure a territory of constant political and aesthetic negotiation, consolidating themselves as potent apparatuses of identity legitimation and producing new truths about women who love women.

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