Abstract
Jorge Correia Orfão
Master in Feminist Studies
FLUC
Methodologies Seminar
February the 18th of 2011
The following interpretation of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) will address gender representation by analyzing the leading female characters of the film. After a period of repression and censorship as a result of the Franco dictatorship, democracy was established in Spain, and the country underwent a process of modernization. In order to understand why Pedro Almodóvar’s films are of interés nacional, I will briefly place him within the context of Spanish National Cinema. This will help us understand not only the intertextual references in Almodóvar’s movies to the Modern Art period of the second quarter of the twentieth century, but also how he represents masculinity and femininity through modern techniques of doing art cinema. The purpose of such an interpretation is to display gender as something that can be “represented”, raising further discussion on the performative nature of gender as something that is not innate. Almodóvar’s films have been heavily debated, analyzed, praised and criticized, and of course, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios is not an exception. One thing is certain though: no matter how hopeless and ironic some scenes are, there is a certain vitality that always comes through and finds an echo in the viewers. (...)
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