Ways of telling, forms of describing: the processes of (trans)cription of a body

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of three different audiovisual works that are thematically related and that share similar descriptive strategies: 1) the movie Body Electric (2017) by Marcelo Caetano; 2) the documentary My body is political (2017) by Alice Riff; and Liberdade de Gênero, a television show aired during 2017 on the Brazilian network GNT. The theme that crosses all three productions is the presence of a trans and peripheral body related to the social environment where these characters live. Considering this contemporary emblem, we debate the transcription of these bodies in media in their relation with the norm. From the three works, we comprehend that the mediation regarding what is shown as neutral is in the equivalence between the bodies, by describing and narrating bodies in dispute in the political field and the forms of sociability they bring.