Unveiling Images: the Visible and the Unspeakable on the Skin We Inhabit

Authors

  • Debora Breder Universidade Católica de Petrópolis
  • Paloma Coelho Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

DOI:

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

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on the web of meanings that intertwine Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (2011) plot - these are often contradictory meanings that illuminate the shadow zones in which thought thematizes difference. First, we analyze the explicit discourse of the film, which deals with the plasticity of the body and the fluidity of genre, showing its constructive character when it dissociates itself from fixed and essentialist categorizations. Next, his implicit discourse is analyzed, considering that every film, as a product of social practices, is also constituted by a set of ideas that escape the author’s own intentions. Ultimately, it is a matter of thinking to what extent the implicit discourse of the plot constitutes a kind of counter discourse in relation to what the feature film explicitly proclaims.

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Author Biographies

Debora Breder, Universidade Católica de Petrópolis

Doutora em Antropologia pela Universidade Federal Fluminense com estágio doutoral na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Foi Professora Visitante junto ao Departamento de Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Pesquisadora do Grupo de Análises de Políticas e Poéticas Audiovisuais (GRAPPA/UFRRJ). Profª da UCAM.

Paloma Coelho, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

Doutoranda em Ciências Sociais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. Pesquisadora do Grupo de Análises de Políticas e Poéticas Audiovisuais (GRAPPA/UFRRJ)

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Published

2017-10-23

How to Cite

Breder, D., & Coelho, P. (2017). Unveiling Images: the Visible and the Unspeakable on the Skin We Inhabit. Revista Estudos Feministas, 25(3), 1489–1502. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Seção Temática: Gênero, Cinema e Audiovisual

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