Jessica Jones (Alias): sobre mudanças nos paradigmas das Super-Heroínas pós anos 2000.

Abstract

Between 2001 and 2004, the comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos produced the comicbook series Alias, starring the character Jessica Campbell Jones. Many elements make her a single superheroine. She doesn't wear a leotard or any typical uniform of its category. Nor does she hide her identity or his superpowers. Like real-life women, she faces problems such as low self esteem, lack of confidence in her work. Sometimes she is underestimated by authorities who don't believe she is capable of assist people who need her help. At various times Jessica is depicted drinking, smoking, having casual relationships. Her behavior is certainly not the most exemplary. But despite this, Jessica always gives her all, whether as investigator solving the most diverse cases that come to her, or as a superheroine, saving people of menaces that by themselves they cannot be defended. In some sense, Alias continues the model of heroines born in the previous decade, in the context of the Girl Power movement. But Jessica goes further in terms of deconstruction. She doesn't fit the pattern of pretty heroines, with flowing hair and flashy outfits. She is a character who faces the situations and is affected by the same problems as ordinary women, saving the day in his own way. The dissertation seeks to analyze the changes that occurred in the paradigm of superheroines after the 2000s. Focusing our analysis on the Jessica Jones character, the research focuses on the rupture that this character makes in relation to the “canonical” patterns of comics, in which the heroines are generally represented as models of ideal conduct.