A personagem Michele da série 3%: ambiguidades, patriacardo e branquitudes na construção do seu perfil

Abstract

In 2008, the children's dystopia The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was released, a work that would influence a literary and audiovisual trend of dystopias produced for a mostly young audience, mostly starring women. And in cinema, more specifically, by white women. In this work, it is in this specific context that we analyze the protagonist Michele (Bianca Comparato), from the Brazilian series 3% (2016-2020). We analyzed the construction of its profile, highlighting the marks of patriarchal precepts and their relationships with the representation of resistance movements. The work was chosen because it was the first entirely Brazilian production by the streaming company Netflix and, consequently, because of its wide audience. The series is being studied from its production and launch context – with occasional comparisons with other dystopias and the female profiles of its protagonists – based on feminist gender theories, especially those of bell hooks (2019) and Audre Lorde (2019) and other contemporary authors. Finally, we analyze the work from the perspective of theoretical studies on whiteness and its mechanisms for maintaining power, by authors such as Linda Alcoff (2015), Cida Bento (2022), Lia Vainer (2012) and Françoise Vergès (2019) , because in this study it was possible to notice that audiovisual dystopias starring female and, mainly, white figures, have gained strength in recent years as a trend in productions made for large circulation and commercialization, being marked by representations of less radical resistance. Therefore, the work presented here will seek to highlight that despite the context of representation of resistance, the maintenance of certain aspects of the status quo is still noticeable in the narrative.