Espaço e sujeito: uma análise discursiva do documentário O cárcere e a rua

Abstract

The present study, entitled “Space and subject: a discursive analysis of the documentary O Cárcere e a Rua” aims at investigating discursive positions occupied by women in semi-open regime, registered at the Female Hostel (SUSEPE) and from the streets of Porto Alegre city – RS, and, consequently, aims at the image they make of themselves. To do so, we worked with excerpts (ORLANDI, 1984) of the documentary O Cárcere e a Rua (2004), by Liliana Sulzbach, which we chose as our object of analysis. O Cárcere e a Rua presents discourses of women who are in closed regime at the Female Penitentiary Madre Pelletier, in Porto Alegre – RS. Thus, this study, based on Discourse Analysis (DA) assumptions, takes this object as a text, set by formulations, in the counterpart of discourse (ORLANDI, 2008). From this, we organized the study in three parts, called chapters: the first chapter contemplates the subject covered here, the issue of prison and the hostel – their compositions and ways of functioning – as well as the theoretical and analytical devices used in this research; the second chapter covers the documentary in relation to cinematographic field; and the documentary in relation to DA, as well as the issue of image for DA; and the third chapter encompasses the analyses, in which we problematized our objective in order to reflect about it. It is important to point out that the analyses reveal that women, in semi-open regime, occupy different discursive positions in the inside of a unique discursive formation and produce distinct images of themselves.