Gothic Noir Filmic Male Gaze: Gender Stereotyping in Margaret Atwood’s “The Freeze-Dried Groom”

Manuela López Ramírez

doi:10.46661/ambigua.5899

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Manuela López Ramírez INDEPEDENT SCHOLAR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46661/ambigua.5899

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estereotipos de género, mirada patriarcal, mujer atrapada, mujer fatal, cine negro gótico, investigador privado

Resumen

Los estereotipos han sido cruciales en las representaciones artísticas, especialmente en el cine, para la construcción de paradigmas de género. Los hombre y las mujeres han sido retratados mediante clichés simplificados y poco realistas con el propósito de controlarlos y constreñirlos a roles y convenciones patriarcales promoviendo sus ideologías sociales normativas. Las mujeres del cine negro son proyecciones de las ansiedades masculinas acerca de la sexualidad e independencia femeninas. En “The Freeze-Dried Groom,” Atwood revela los estereotipos de género a través de una mirada masculina típica del cine negro en tres de sus personas tipos: la mujer atrapada, el “detective” y la mujer fatal. Así, Atwood describe a una mujer fatal para reflexionar no sólo sobre este personaje del cine negro, sino también sobre la identidad femenina, la dinámica de género y el feminismo. Atwood denuncia y critica la institución matrimonio-familia y la sociedad patriarcal en su conjunto.

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