La palabra, el teatro y la seducción en Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, de Pedro Almodóvar. [The word, drama and seduction in Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.]
This article examines the intertextual presence of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar from the deconstructive lenses of Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Almodóvar's embrace of postmodernist aesthetics embodies an intricate questioning of the veracity of love as it has...
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| Published in | Iberoamericana (Madrid, Spain) Vol. 10; no. 38; pp. 69 - 87 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | Spanish |
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01.06.2010
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| Summary: | This article examines the intertextual presence of Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar from the deconstructive lenses of Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Almodóvar's embrace of postmodernist aesthetics embodies an intricate questioning of the veracity of love as it has been portrayed by culturally legitimizing sources like the Hollywood film industry. The love dissolution his film portrays does not result in spiritual or metaphysical crisis but rather in the revelation of the truth of love as another performance. This critique of love's essentialist identity intersects with other deconstructive approaches to gender identities and traditional concepts of happiness. Women posits femininity as a masquerade, lays bare cultural inflections of the seducer and suggests alternative models of what can be conceived as happiness. (Author abstract) |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Feature-1 |
| ISSN: | 1577-3388 |