De Hollywood à pornografia: a violência do regime escópico de hipersexualização em corpos femininos e feminilizados amarelos

Abstract

This final work problematizes the historical-political-cultural construction, through the analysis of Hollywood films, of hyper sexualized representations of female and feminized East Asian bodies. It also analyzes the perpetuation of the hyper sexualized vision linked to these bodies in the American porn industry and its social and cultural consequences. The work studies the representations of female and feminized East Asian bodies on mainstream pornography platforms, such as Pornhub, and highlights how the stereotypes of Dragon Lady (dangerous, sensual and cruel) and Lotus Blossom (docile and submissive) were perpetuated both in classic Hollywood cinema and contemporary pornography. Using a critical and visual methodological approach, this study uses scopic regimes as a theoretical basis to examine power relations mediated by visuality, where the vision and representation of bodies are determined and hierarchical. Furthermore, it relates theory to practice by intervening and counter-mapping reflections on images. From this, it explores the implications of these representations in the dehumanization of East Asian immigrants and the resulting sexual and racial violence. The study proposes a look at the resistance to this hypersexual image through art and activism, highlighting art initiatives as activism, such as through the feminist collective Tomorrow Girls Troop (n.d.) and art as an instrument of humanization and representation, from works such as those by artists Muna Tseng (2023) and Miné Okubo (1942; 1943; 1944)