Imaginal Narratives of Bodies and Sexualities: Gender and Corporalities in the Film Feos, sucios y malos

Authors

  • Esteban Marcos Dipaola Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

Based on theoretical references about the conception of the “imaginal”, that is, modes of constitution of bodies and sexualities through images, this analysis will concentrate on the film “Feos, sucios y malos” (Brutti, sporchi and cattivi) (1976) directed by Ettore Scola, aiming at observing the visualities of the body and its transformations when presented as excess of the representations. In the film, bodies, sexuality and desires mark the excesses of the representation of the popular and, therefore, a rupture of the visual normality of bodies. Thus, the representation of women and other sexual identities are woven between the axes of a normalizing gaze that the film raises to the grotesque as a means of criticism. The analysis of “Feos, sucios y malos” questions, in the criticism, the dominant and normalizing forms of inscribing the sexualities in visual devices of contemporary signification.

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Author Biography

Esteban Marcos Dipaola, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctor en Ciencias sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) y Licenciado en Sociología (UBA). Es Investigador categoría asistente en el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Profesor de la carrera de Sociología y de la maestría en Comunicación y cultura de la Facultad de Ciencias sociales (UBA). Su último libro se titula “Comunidad impropia. Estéticas posmodernas del lazo social” (editorial Letra Viva, 2013). Además de otros libros, publicó artículos en revistas académicas de diferentes países.

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Published

2017-10-23

How to Cite

Dipaola, E. M. (2017). Imaginal Narratives of Bodies and Sexualities: Gender and Corporalities in the Film Feos, sucios y malos. Revista Estudos Feministas, 25(3), 1459–1471. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Seção Temática: Gênero, Cinema e Audiovisual

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