Representations of gender and race in the cinematic culture of the movie ‘gone with the wind’ (1939)

Abstract

This work is anchored in observation studies of cinematographic art as a "cultural pedagogy" thus acquiring a specific meaning which is part of the act of educating globally with the aspiration of a narrative that is relatable to everyone. The objective of this work is to understand how the different relationships of the subjects regarding gender and race in the cinematic culture of the movie Gone with the Wind (1939) are represented. Through ethnographic analysis it is possible to observe dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, unveiling the plots of specific discourses representatives of the power structures. An approach that captures the contexts of texts and images presented by the media revealing social spaces of television (RIAL, 2005). Thus, through the characters of a motion picture we can observe relationships of gender, race, power, culture, and social distributions that identify the place of man and woman in a particular society.