Queering Gender: The New Femme Fatale in Almodóvar’s La mala educación (2004)

It is difficult to define film genres in the post-modern cinema, as they are strongly influenced by the conventions of classic genres. Within this context the emergence of transgressive or “dissident” identities have populated such genres and particularly the creation of a modern femme fatale has be...

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Autor: Pastor Pastor, Brígida Manuela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repositorio:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/25465
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25465
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 Filología
Queer
gender
femme fatale
cinema
Bad Education
Almodóvar
género
cine
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Sumario:It is difficult to define film genres in the post-modern cinema, as they are strongly influenced by the conventions of classic genres. Within this context the emergence of transgressive or “dissident” identities have populated such genres and particularly the creation of a modern femme fatale has become a popular and polemical character in contemporary fiction. This new transgressive identity deviates from its counterpart in classical cinema-film noir. Pedro Almodóvar’s La mala educación (2004) reveals that the modern femme fatale has become at the turn of the twenty-first century an integral part of the queer community, thus proposing a new filmic platform of queering gender for the vindication of the rights of the (“other”) stigmatized identities.