Jesus é viada?! uma crítica aos olhares cis-heterossexuais sobre personagens-viadas na série de Hqs The walking dead e na série de TV True blood

Abstract

This thesis is a critique of how the cis-straight gaze contaminates the development of narrative arcs of gay characters in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Comics and Alan Ball's television series True Blood. In the quest to build urban diversity amid crises between humans and non-humans, creators use different elements to build non-white, non-human, non-straight characters. Then will show how the straight cultural control devices influence both the narrative arc as well as the reception of cis-gay characters, even openly gay authors end up submitting their creations to the cis-heterosexual hegemonic logic. From Paul “Jesus” Monroe’s presumption of heterosexuality in The Walking Dead or from the domesticating use of Jesús Velasquez and his relationship with Lafayette Reynolds in True Blood, we show that even in narratives that represent the end of the world and the social structures in which we live , heterosexual culture imposes itself by building new worlds that are still heterosexist: either by basing all relationships on the heteronormative model to build non-heterosexual characters; or, how the sexuality and affections of non-heterosexual characters are represented in comparison to the practices of heterosexual characters; or, yet, how the narratives of non-heterosexual characters develop in relation to the main narrative in their respective works. It is not new that QUEER studies turn to pop culture and its products. By applying this type of study to cultural products based on heterosexual hegemony, such as those selected for this thesis, in the light of authors such as Jack Halberstam, Paul B. Preciado and Virginie Despentes for the construction of sexualities discussions and Maureen Murdock and Scott McCloud on narratives and media, in addition to others, we intend to expand the discussions on representations of masculinities, especially homosexuals, and representation in works of mass culture, giving an understanding of how the structures of power are repeated in these works of fiction and problematizing issues that would not appear in a first analysis but that are rooted in western culture