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0Helena Nogueira successfully defended her master’s dissertation in Communication, Art, and Culture on April 12, 2024, in the Sala de Reuniões of the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS). The research, titled ‘Identities and Representations in Motion: A Study on the Animated Film Coco’, analysed the film identity dimension of the Disney-Pixar movie.
Under the supervision of Isabel Macedo and Rita Ribeiro, Helena Nogueira presented her dissertation in a public defence before a jury chaired by Emília Araújo, Associate Professor with Aggregation of the Department of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho. The committee also included Isabel Moreira Macedo, Research Assistant at the Center for Communication and Society Studies Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho, and Tiago Vieira da Silva, Invited Assistant Professor at ESAP – Porto School of Arts.
Master’s Thesis Defense: Identities and representations in motion: a study on the animated film Coco, by Helena Nogueira
Thesis abstract: Considering animated cinema as an essential tool for social representation capable of engaging with the context in which it was produced as a medium and artistic expression, this dissertation sought to understand how the Disney-Pixar animated film Coco (2017) engages with contemporary identity challenges. Furthermore, through the analysis and interpretation of the film and the analysis of Coco’s reception by the audience, based on comments left on IMDb, we discuss how the film represents Mexican cultural identity. It was possible to conclude that Coco (2017) moves away from hegemonic negative representations of Mexicanness and engages with contemporary identity challenges and events. We also found that the analyzed animated film opens doors to other attempts to deconstruct and question the modes of representation of identities in cinema, potentially contributing to introducing new perspectives and identity narratives to common sense.