A (re) apresentação de inquisidores: a construção da masculinidade nas narrativas fílmicas “O poço e o pêndulo” (1961 e 1991)

Abstract

The figures of inquisitors have always been historically associated with power, control and legitimized masculinity. As members of an institution primarily composed of men, they found in the historical period of their existence the support of a society that supported their procedural method based on torture, coercion, and hegemony. In order to understand the representations of the male figure of the inquisitor in American horror cinema, this dissertation proposes the analysis of the filmic narratives of The Pit and the Pendulum produced in 1961 and 1991 in the USA, inspired by the homonymous short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1842), with hegemonic masculinity as the main category of analysis (CONNELL, 2013). Thinking about the narrative as an object of historical analysis through a methodology that considers the analysis of extra-filmic and intra-filmic elements (QUINSANI, 2014), allows us to study the history of how hegemonic masculinity in film culture was thought of, (re)produced and maintained of the American horror genre: it is to think, in this way, how the narratives reread the social of a certain culture. There fore, from this analysis, it appears that the American film industry is used at different , but with the same purpose, to disseminate the ideology of a dominant masculinity through entertainment, in which women appear as subordinates, maintaining the position of patriarchy, this refers to the entire process of producing and distributing these films.