Banca de DEFESA: VANESSA APARECIDA FORTE

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STUDENT : VANESSA APARECIDA FORTE
DATE: 16/04/2026
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Remoto via google meet
TITLE:

Punished Bodies: Gender Violence and Narrative Inequality in Vincenzo

KEY WORDS:

Female villains; Gender-based violence; K-Drama; South Korea; Power and Feminism.

PAGES: 147
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais e Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Teoria da Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This dissertation seeks to understand how gender-based violence is constructed, represented, and unevenly distributed between male and female antagonists in the K-drama Vincenzo, considering the relationships between audiovisual narrative, social norms, and regimes of power. Based on a qualitative approach that combines Content Analysis and Film Analysis, the study examines how narrative and formal elements, such as framing, editing, and soundtrack, contribute to the production of meanings related to morality, transgression, and punishment. It is grounded on the hypothesis that female villainy is constructed as a more intolerable deviation from gender norms, being subjected to more intense, moralized, and spectacularized forms of punishment, while male villainy tends to be partially legitimized or strategically framed. In this sense, the trajectories of the antagonists Jang Jun Woo and Choi Myung Hee are analyzed, observing how their performances of power, their actions, and, above all, their outcomes reveal asymmetries in the ways violence is narratively authorized and applied. The research is grounded in an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that articulates gender studies, feminist theory, and audiovisual analysis, mobilizing concepts such as gender performativity, regimes of visibility, technologies of power, the male gaze, and the female gaze, in order to understand how the female body has been historically constructed as an object of control, desire, and punishment. At the same time, it situates K-Dramas within the broader context of the South Korean cultural industry and the Hallyu, understanding these productions as devices for the circulation of social and moral values on a transnational scale. The analysis shows that female villainy operates as a symbolic device that delineates the socially acceptable limits of women's action and autonomy, functioning as a narrative pedagogy that regulates femininity through violence. Thus, rather than merely examining characters, the dissertation demonstrates how audiovisual media participates in the production and legitimation of gender inequalities, revealing that punishment, far from being neutral, constitutes a central mechanism in maintaining symbolic and social hierarchies.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2143597 - EMERSON ROBERTO DE ARAUJO PESSOA
Interno - 3058111 - SAMILO TAKARA
Externa à Instituição - DANIELA DE SOUZA MAZUR MONTEIRO - UFF
Externo à Instituição - AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE