Educação e representação na sitcom Everybody Hates Crhis (2005 – 2009)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze female representations with a focus on black women and gender relations, on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. For this analysis, we will start from the theoretical field of Cultural Studies with Douglas Kellner (2001) and cultural pedagogies, an important field of education, problematized by Henry Giroux (1995) and César Larcen (2013). According to these authors, media products are “educational” and have an important role in the social context, giving us material that helps to forge our identities as gender, sex, class, race and so on. They often bring conservative speeches, using comedy that, like any other speech, is not free from the speeches in force in society, so we will think about the term “politically correct” and the limit of humor as a speech player. For this analysis, we will discuss with Minois (2003) and Berman (1992). Still for the analysis, we will establish a discussion with Angela Davis (2013) and Mall Neto (2010) that punctuate important data about the historical, social and cultural context of black women in the United States, so that we can discuss the representations they receive. Besides, we used as a methodology the cinematographic language and the sitcom structure, by Ferreira (2018), Sedita (2006), Sander (2005) and Turner (1997). We hypothesize the idea that humor, like any other media, can contribute to breaking stereotypes built by historical-social issues, as well as reinforcing them.