“It is said that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, destroys it.”

“The place of the look defines cinema,

the possibility of varying it and exposing it.”

Laura Mulvey, “Visual pleasure and Narrative Cinema”.

 

 

El presente artículo analiza el film La cámara oscura dirigido por la argentina María Victoria Menis desde una perspectiva de género, postulando una nueva estética y representación del cuerpo femenino, y una alternativa a los modos de percepción estereotipados del cine clásico hollywoodense.

 

Abstract

This article analyzes the film “La cámara oscura” by Argentinean Director María Victoria Menis from a gender perspective, suggesting a new aesthetics and representation of the female body, as well as an alternative to those stereotyped ways of perception from Hollywood’s classic cinema.