THE SIGNIFICATION AND THE MEANING OF ORGASTIC BODY IN THE PORN CINEMA

Authors

  • Odair José Moreira da Silva Universidade de São Paulo / FAPESP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2013v16n1p149

Keywords:

Body and meaning. Figurativization. Porn cinema.

Abstract

In the early 1970s, three films establish a way for determining the representation of sex in movie screens: Deep Throat (1972), The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), and Behind the Green Door (1972). In these films, dissatisfaction, innocence, curiosity, and incompleteness, understood as abstract thematic routes, gain concreteness by the procedure of female bodies figurativization installed on filmic enunciate, immersed in a search, voluntary or otherwise, completeness carnal. For the French Semiotics, the figurativization is an important process in the grounds of a discourse whatsoever: it is a procedure in which semantic content perceived as more “concrete” overlying theme paths more “abstract”. Our purpose is to verify, by means of semiotic discoursive, such as abstract thematic routes are materialized, that receiving one figurative coating to convey a sense of purpose intended by the enunciator, and to investigate the representation of the body projected onto the film text. From these three films of eroticism i  excess, hardcore erotic cinema, we intend to lay the groundwork for the foundation of a semiotics of sexual representation on film porn, whose figurativization body in ecstasy, in the utterance, it becomes crucial for the establishment this genre of film.

Author Biography

Odair José Moreira da Silva, Universidade de São Paulo / FAPESP

Mestre (2004), Doutor (2011) em Semiótica e Linguística Geral, pela USP (DL / FFLCH). Atualmente, desenvolve o póa-doutorado em Semiótica e Linguística Geral pela mesma universidade (USP), com apoio financeiro da FAPESP (processo n. 11/52105-5).

Published

2013-01-20

How to Cite

SILVA, Odair José Moreira da. THE SIGNIFICATION AND THE MEANING OF ORGASTIC BODY IN THE PORN CINEMA. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 1, p. 149–170, 2013. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2013v16n1p149. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/2237-4876.2013v16n149. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.