ALMEIDA, R. M. V.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6843530704194631; ALMEIDA, Raija Maria Vanderlei de.
Resumo:
The film Pocahontas (1995) is an important interpretive key to understanding the
American society of the 1990s, and the way Pocahontas was represented by Disney
Studios. The film’s plot brings up important elements, consistent with issues of the
United States in the 1990s, such as the man's relationship with nature and how Native
Americans related to it, rescuing one of the founding myths of the United States. We
followed the trajectory of the Pocahontas myth, to get to know its historicity and the
way in which this myth was understood over time until its resignification by the Disney
narrative in the 1990s. We seek to understand the history that makes the film and the
story that the film tells. We deal with the film both as a historical fact and as a way of
understanding the story told in its narrative. We seek to understand the construction
of the Pocahontas myth and its representation in the film, having an image built over
the centuries (always relating to a diplomatic and pacifying trait of the character),
transformed into a strong, transformative mediating and environmentalist female
protagonist. The film is a project of both white people and Native Americans within a
cultural war of dispute for narratives, two parallel projects within and around the work,
building a narrative of the past from a selection of other narratives that will compose
that result.