REDEN [Nueva época] : revista española de estudios norteamericanosREDEN [Nueva época]http://hdl.handle.net/10017/484482024-03-28T13:04:51Z2024-03-28T13:04:51ZThe Dollhouse and Mobility of the Southern Gothic Legacy in Sharp ObjectsKlusáková, Veronikahttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/598872024-01-26T01:15:45Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Dollhouse and Mobility of the Southern Gothic Legacy in Sharp Objects
Klusáková, Veronika
The text explores several issues connected to the relationship between the gothic house and its miniature
double, a dollhouse, on the example of a Southern Gothic TV series Sharp Objects, an HBO production from
2018. It addresses their similar position as gendered spaces (the house being a profoundly feminine business,
the dollhouse a field for girls to practice femininity), their gothicization (both host traumas and secrets
of the past), and the work they perform in the perpetuation of their Gothic legacy. The foregrounding
of mobility and agency in the treatment of the gothic dollhouse helps to question and reread one of the
basic building blocks of Southern Gothic fiction: its reliance on the sense of place. In this view, the dollhouse
operates as an interface between the world outside and inside and thus dissolves the boundaries set
by the master house. It is not just its mirror image, propelling a mise-en-abîme project of perpetual proliferation,
but, when properly noticed, provides a tool for the healing of past wounds and traumas via their
contemporary embodiments, and sets new directions for the social relevance of Southern Gothic fiction.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZV For Vendetta (2005) and the Sociopolitical Impact of a Shakespearean Dystopian AvengerForés Rossell, Xelohttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/598852024-01-26T01:15:58Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZV For Vendetta (2005) and the Sociopolitical Impact of a Shakespearean Dystopian Avenger
Forés Rossell, Xelo
The use of science and technology as tools for political domination is a recurrent topic in dystopian films.
James McTeigue and the Wachowski sisters´ film adaptation (2005) of Alan Moore and David Lloyd´s cult
graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982-89) is a unique example of this kind, as the film has enhanced its impact
on a wider audience and has spread its influence over the sociopolitical arena. After 18 years since its release,
the film´s criticism is still in force and it may be applied to analyze recent political events in the
United States. Far from being a work circumscribed to a specific time, nowadays the film highlights issues
that are still relevant and problematic, such as resettlement camps, pandemics, manipulated information
and massive surveillance. The film adaptation has become a global hit and V´s mask has been claimed and
reproduced in all kinds of protests. Therefore, this masked avenger—inspired by Guy Fawkes and created
forty years ago—has succeeded to become a tragic hero in the fashion of revenge tragedy characters, combining
Shakespearean references with radical political ideas. Thus, people have identified with V through
the years, bringing his mask to the streets in social and political struggles such as Anonymous or Occupy
Wall Street.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFeminist Quest Heroine: Female Superheroines and Deconstruction of Male HeroismAupitak, Thanonghttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/598842024-01-26T01:15:48Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFeminist Quest Heroine: Female Superheroines and Deconstruction of Male Heroism
Aupitak, Thanong
Hero's narratives have long been significantly shaped by male heroism to construct a certain perception
towards gender by imposing hegemonic masculinity onto a male hero and hegemonic femininity on a female
in order to establish a perpetual linkage between masculinity and superiority, simultaneously marginalizing
female characters and their values by limiting their roles into being damsels in distress waiting
to be rescued by a male hero and later becoming a reward of his success. Nevertheless, it has become prominent
that various materials, especially movies, in the twenty-first century American popular culture have
adopted a different model to portray a narrative of heroism by infusing it with the concept of Feminist Quest
Heroine, a theory foregrounded by Svenja Hohenstein that highlights the re-modification of male-dominated
narrative of heroism into a feminist one. The narrative no longer cherishes the superiority of masculinity
but now addresses the feminine aspects instead. In order to rework the narrative, the concept points
out to four different but inter-related approaches: the empowerment of femininity, reworking gendered
bodies, power of connections, and a critique of patriarchal power. The adoption of the approaches result
in a more empowering heroine who is able to subvert traditional aspects embedded with a conventional
narrative of heroism.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Twenty-First-Century Avengers: Exploration of War, Globalization, and Identity PoliticsAcosta Bustamante, Leonorhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/598822024-01-26T01:15:48Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Twenty-First-Century Avengers: Exploration of War, Globalization, and Identity Politics
Acosta Bustamante, Leonor
The economic and cultural impact of the four films forming the saga of The Avengers from 2012 to 2019
stands for the impressive accumulation of superhero fiction in the twenty-first century, with a remarkable
resituation of the topic of war conflict into the popular imagination quite affected by the traumatic beginning
of the era in the New York scenario on 9/11. This article intends to analyze the different plot elements
in The Avengers (2012), The Avengers. Age of Ultron (2015), The Avengers. Infinity War (2018), and The
Avengers. Endgame (2019) to find clues to explain how the Marvel Cinematic Universe accomplishes a complex
exploration of the nature of war, and how the films offer new ways of deconstructing simplistic Manichean
polarization between good vs. evil. With this objective in mind, the study pays attention to how this
deconstruction also needs to concentrate on the decomposition of stereotypes related to identity politics.
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