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While it is very common for supermodels to make the occasional foray into cinematic performance, and some of them manage to turn these forays into full-time careers in acting, it is very rare that supermodel-actors are afforded any academic attention. This thesis seeks to change this through a case study of two supermodel-actors: Devon Aoki and Abbey Lee. Using a methodology that combines extratextual contextualization with close analysis of image and film materials, and grounded in a perspective that centers the body, it analyzes Aoki and Lee’s careers as they cross over from one form of stardom to another. The focus of the analysis lies in the way that the bodily capital which is the basis of their modelling work also informs their acting personas as they are shaped through their on-screen work, publicity and reception. Furthermore, the thesis applies the concept of niche stardom, adapted from Diane Negra, to illustrate how Aoki and Lee inhabit a stardom which is specific to certain audiences with specific values and tastes. The analysis finds that there is a significant overlap between Aoki and Lee’s modelling and acting personas, and that this overlap is channeled through the representations of their bodies which, are the sites of heterogeneous discourses of gender, sexuality and race.

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Cette thèse s’intéresse à la question : en quoi l’apprentissage de la danse contemporaine héritière des sources africaines contribue-t-il à la déconstruction de l’occidentalocentrisme au sein de la communauté franco-québécoise blanche à Montréal ? Il sera démontré que cet apprentissage vient à offrir la possibilité à la communauté franco-québécoise blanche de retourner le regard critique vers elle-même afin d’observer sa propre acculturation occidentalocentrique et afin d’observer comment elle perpétue la violence de la blanchité. Ancré dans un cadre critique de justice postcoloniale, l'apprentissage de la danse contemporaine héritière des sources africaines peut contribuer à délier la hiérarchisation entre un occident associé à « l'humanité » et « l'Autre » associé à une humanité en fonction de sa proximité avec l'occident. L'apprentissage de la danse contemporaine héritière des sources africaines invoque une déhiérarchisation des catégories de « modernité/primitivité » et cultive une restitution des pluralités face à une colonialité qui continue à hégémoniser les épistémologies, les ontologies et les esthétiques. Ce faisant, l’enseignement de la danse contemporaine héritière des sources africaines au Québec est un exemple de cas qui déstabilise les paradigmes néo-coloniaux du ‘développement’ dans lesquels le ‘Nord’, associé à la ‘modernité’, est agent de développement, alors que le ‘Sud’ est récipiendaire du développement. Les implications plus larges de cette étude ont trait aux questions d’engagement dans une solidarité réhumanisante qui déconstruit la colonialité; aux questions de coexistence sociale dans la pluralité culturelle; ainsi qu'à l'éthique orientant les relations qu'on entretient avec « l'Autre ».

[pt] A presente dissertação tem como objetivo produzir um ensaio que problematize as representações da história escravista e colonial brasileira e as violências fixadas pelo racismo em manifestações artísticas contemporâneas. Para ler tais questões analiso o livro Memórias da Plantação: episódios de racismo cotidiano (2019), da artista multidisciplinar portuguesa Grada Kilomba e o filme de ficção Vazante (2017), dirigido pela cineasta brasileira Daniela Thomas, em diálogo com o evento de sua recepção e repercussão crítica na mídia brasileira. A partir destas duas obras que partem de diferentes perspectivas, abordagens e temporalidades, a pesquisa procura refletir sobre como as cicatrizes da violência escravista e colonial são performadas na contemporaneidade e como as noções de lugar de escuta/lugar de fala, letramento racial e fragilidade branca têm sido ativadas no vocabulário contemporâneo para se pensar racialidade e privilégio branco. / [en] This dissertation aims to produce an essay that problematizes the representations of the colonialism and slavery times of brazilian history and the violence fixed by racism in contemporary artistic works. To read such questions, I analyze the book Plantation memories: episodes of everyday racism (2019[2008]), by the portuguese multidisciplinary artist Grada Kilomba and the fiction feature film Vazante (2017), directed by the brazilian filmmaker Daniela Thomas, in dialogue with the event of its reception and critical repercussion in the brazilian media. From these two works that start from different perspectives, approaches and temporalities, the research seeks to reflect on how the scars of colonial and slave violence are performed in contemporary times and how the notions of place of listening / place of speech, racial literacy and white fragility have been activated and transformed in contemporary vocabulary to think about raciality and white privilege.