The diva in musicals and brothels: studio cinema and contemporary visuality in the United States
The figure of the diva is the center of a series of discourses that associate gender, nation and sexuality. This article claims that it is possible to establish a genealogical identity between the American visual production of Hollywood musicals of the early twentieth century andmusic videos of the...
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I26-R133-article-77982018-12-03T07:52:49Z The diva in musicals and brothels: studio cinema and contemporary visuality in the United States Estudios de género: la sexualidad, lo femenino y la femeneidad. La diva en los musicales y el espacio del prostíbulo Martinelli, Lucas femenine representation sexual identities queer theory film video clip representación femenina identidades sexuales teoría queer cine videoclip The figure of the diva is the center of a series of discourses that associate gender, nation and sexuality. This article claims that it is possible to establish a genealogical identity between the American visual production of Hollywood musicals of the early twentieth century andmusic videos of the early twenty–firstcentury. From a queer theory perspective —which draws on analytical vectors from gender studies, film studies and visual studies— this article raises reflective axes on the functioning of the figure of the diva within the musical genre and its particular appearance within the space of the brothel. Previous theories that have approached the subject are tackled; connections betweentwo ways of thinking space, utopianism and pornotopia,and the figure of the Tiller Girls, are presented; two mystifying categories of feminine representation are proposed: dreamy girl and Gold Digger,to finally conclude with some considerations on the issueof sex work as a contemporary backdrop to this relation. La figura de la diva es el centro de una serie de discursos que asocian género, nación y sexualidad. La idea que subyace a este artículo es que resulta posible establecer una identidad genealógica en la producción visual estadounidense de los musicales de Hollywood de comienzos del siglo XX respecto de los videoclips musicales de principios del siglo XXI. Desde una perspectiva queer, que se nutre de vectores analíticos provenientes de los estudios de género, los estudios cinematográficos y los estudios visuales, este artículo plantea ejes reflexivos sobre el funcionamiento de la figura de la diva dentro del género musical y su aparición particular dentro del espacio del prostíbulo. Se retoman abordajes de teorías que anteriormente se acercaron al tema; se presentan conexiones con dos modos de pensar el espacio: el utopianismo y la pornotopía,y con la figura de las Tiller Girls; se proponen dos categorías mistificadoras de la representación femenina: la de soñadora y la de Gold Digger, y se concluye con algunas consideraciones sobre la problemática del trabajo sexual como telón de fondo contemporáneo en el que apareceeste cruce. Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2018-11-27 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/Culturas/article/view/7798 10.14409/culturas.v0i12.7798 Culturas; Núm. 12 (2018): Culturas; 83-101 Culturas; No. 12 (2018): Culturas; 83-101 2362-5538 1515-3738 10.14409/culturas.v0i12 spa https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/Culturas/article/view/7798/11235 Derechos de autor 2018 Culturas |
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The figure of the diva is the center of a series of discourses that associate gender, nation and sexuality. This article claims that it is possible to establish a genealogical identity between the American visual production of Hollywood musicals of the early twentieth century andmusic videos of the early twenty–firstcentury. From a queer theory perspective —which draws on analytical vectors from gender studies, film studies and visual studies— this article raises reflective axes on the functioning of the figure of the diva within the musical genre and its particular appearance within the space of the brothel. Previous theories that have approached the subject are tackled; connections betweentwo ways of thinking space, utopianism and pornotopia,and the figure of the Tiller Girls, are presented; two mystifying categories of feminine representation are proposed: dreamy girl and Gold Digger,to finally conclude with some considerations on the issueof sex work as a contemporary backdrop to this relation. |
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