How Bizarre was our Cinema?: the Conservative Transgression of Sady Baby

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how film productions by actor and director Sady Baby constructed representations about heterosexual men, women, homosexual men and transvestites. The central argument is that, although the appeal to the bizarre and the grotesque represented resistance to the domestication and normalization of bodies, this director’s movies reproduced disparaging values towards women, homosexual men and transvestites, while reiterating standards of dominant virility of heterosexual male characters.

Sady Baby; “Pornochanchada”; Transgression; Brazilian Cinema; Explicit Sex