Territórios do envelhecimento feminino: corpo e aparência na série and just like that
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2025-08-14
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Garcia, Claudia
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This dissertation investigates the narrative strategies — technical, visual, and verbal — used in the television series And Just Like That to address issues related to body appearance and the aesthetic pressures experienced by women in their fifties. The research is based on the understanding of the aging female body as a symbolic and political territory, shaped by social, aesthetic, and gender norms, and proposes an intersectional analysis of the representations of female old age in audiovisual media. The study is situated within the field of communication and territorialities, drawing on concepts such as body-territory (Haesbaert, 2020), body as capital (Goldenberg, 2011), the morality of smooth skin (Sibilia, 2012), the aesthetics of smoothness (Han, 2019), the beauty myth (Wolf, 1991), ageism (PAHO, 2022), and technologies of age (Bañón and Zecchi, 2020), among other key contributions. The methodology combines serial narrative analysis with film analysis techniques, focusing on selected scenes from the first season of the series, with special attention to the visual construction of the characters, narrative arcs, and costume design as an expressive tool of identity and visibility. The study also employs the categories of aging myths and stereotypes proposed by Assis et al. (2023). By reflecting on the ways in which the series represents female aging—at times reinforcing exclusionary standards, at others opening space for resistance— this research contributes to the debate on gender, age, and visibility in contemporary audiovisual media, offering a critical reading of the multiterritorialities of aging and of appearance as a surface of symbolic and political disputes.
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Corpo-território , Envelhecimento feminino , Ficção seriada