Abstract:
This work analyzes the Brazilian feature film Alice Júnior (2019), a comedy aimed at young audiences, available on the Netflix platform. The film has the school as the main setting and a transgender high school student as the protagonist, using the Content Analysis methodology proposed by Laurence Bardin (1979). The aim of this study is to discuss transgenderism from a conceptual point of view and within formal teaching spaces, taking the film as a reference; understand how subjects' sexual and gender identities are constituted based on the theories of Joan Scot, Robert Stoller, Simone de Beauvoir, Gaylle Rubin, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Guacira Lopes Louro, Berenice Bento, among others; perceive cinema as a source of knowledge and information that, according to Rosália Duarte and Eli Fabris, provides teachers and students with a rich understanding of the world. Through this study it is possible to understand that the film provides knowledge and reflections about the difference between sexual identity and gender. In addition, it demonstrates that cis/heteroaffectivity, despite being predominant, is just one more of the identities that exist. In the course of this work, statistics are presented that prove the need for an intercultural education so that in Brazilian society and, especially in schools, there is greater respect for human subjectivities.
