{"title":"¡Pinastri!: la metamorfosis del deseo sadomasoquista y la subversión de la fantasía pornotópica en The Duke of Burgundy","authors":"Gina Oxbrow","doi":"10.58221/mosp.v115i3.6844","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"La película The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014) parece, a primera vista, una película de pornografía blanda al estilo de Bilitis (David Hamilton, 1977) debido a sus bucólicos paisajes verdes en un ambiente aparentemente burgués. El film narra la relación sadomasoquista entre Cynthia, una acomodada académica y conocida entomóloga, y su joven amante, criada sumisa y aprendiz, Evelyn. Las dos viven juntas en un sitio sin nombre o contexto, más bien una pornotopía de deseo desenfrenado. Sin embargo, cuando se interpone la rutina doméstica, comienza a producirse un desequilibrio entre la dominación, la fantasía, la satisfacción y la representación. A lo largo de este trabajo, pondremos de relieve los guiños constantes a las películas de Jess Franco, Armando Bó y Luis Buñuel, lo que nos enfrenta a un pastiche de la representación pornotópica cinematográfica, no solo de las relaciones lesbianas, sino también una parodia sadomasoquista. Se trata de una subversión de aquella pornografía mainstream, dirigida exclusivamente a una mirada masculina heterosexual. En esta película el deseo femenino se empodera a través del desarrollo psicológico de las protagonistas, pues estas no son concebidas como mero objetos de deseo para el espectador, sino como sujetos que viven su sexualidad a plenitud. \nAt first sight, The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014) might seem to be a soft-porn film in the style of Bilitis (David Hamilton, 1977) due to the recurring backdrop of bucolic green and leafy landscapes within an apparently bourgeois setting. The film centres on the sado-masochistic relationship between Cynthia, a prosperous academic and well-known entomologist, and her younger lover, who is also her submissive maid and research apprentice. They live together in a de-contextualized location with no name, reminiscent of a pornotopia of unfettered desire. Yet, once mundane domestic routine takes over, this leads to an imbalance between domination, fantasy, satisfaction and role-play. In the following analysis, we shall highlight the constant explicit nods by the director to the films of Jess Franco, Armando Bó or Luis Buñuel, which thus result in the film becoming more of a pastiche of pornotopic cinema productions not only of lesbian relationships, but it ends up being a sadomasochistic parody, too. We are now confronted with a subversion of mainstream pornography, usually directed at a stereotypically male heterosexual audience. In this production, female desire is empowered by means of the psychological development of the lead characters, as they are not represented as mere objects of desire for the viewer’s pleasure, but as subjects enjoying their own sexuality to the full.","PeriodicalId":41279,"journal":{"name":"MODERNA SPRAK","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MODERNA SPRAK","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v115i3.6844","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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La película The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014) parece, a primera vista, una película de pornografía blanda al estilo de Bilitis (David Hamilton, 1977) debido a sus bucólicos paisajes verdes en un ambiente aparentemente burgués. El film narra la relación sadomasoquista entre Cynthia, una acomodada académica y conocida entomóloga, y su joven amante, criada sumisa y aprendiz, Evelyn. Las dos viven juntas en un sitio sin nombre o contexto, más bien una pornotopía de deseo desenfrenado. Sin embargo, cuando se interpone la rutina doméstica, comienza a producirse un desequilibrio entre la dominación, la fantasía, la satisfacción y la representación. A lo largo de este trabajo, pondremos de relieve los guiños constantes a las películas de Jess Franco, Armando Bó y Luis Buñuel, lo que nos enfrenta a un pastiche de la representación pornotópica cinematográfica, no solo de las relaciones lesbianas, sino también una parodia sadomasoquista. Se trata de una subversión de aquella pornografía mainstream, dirigida exclusivamente a una mirada masculina heterosexual. En esta película el deseo femenino se empodera a través del desarrollo psicológico de las protagonistas, pues estas no son concebidas como mero objetos de deseo para el espectador, sino como sujetos que viven su sexualidad a plenitud.
At first sight, The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014) might seem to be a soft-porn film in the style of Bilitis (David Hamilton, 1977) due to the recurring backdrop of bucolic green and leafy landscapes within an apparently bourgeois setting. The film centres on the sado-masochistic relationship between Cynthia, a prosperous academic and well-known entomologist, and her younger lover, who is also her submissive maid and research apprentice. They live together in a de-contextualized location with no name, reminiscent of a pornotopia of unfettered desire. Yet, once mundane domestic routine takes over, this leads to an imbalance between domination, fantasy, satisfaction and role-play. In the following analysis, we shall highlight the constant explicit nods by the director to the films of Jess Franco, Armando Bó or Luis Buñuel, which thus result in the film becoming more of a pastiche of pornotopic cinema productions not only of lesbian relationships, but it ends up being a sadomasochistic parody, too. We are now confronted with a subversion of mainstream pornography, usually directed at a stereotypically male heterosexual audience. In this production, female desire is empowered by means of the psychological development of the lead characters, as they are not represented as mere objects of desire for the viewer’s pleasure, but as subjects enjoying their own sexuality to the full.
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It is a pleasure to be able to welcome you to web-based Moderna språk, the journal of English, French, German and Spanish languages, literatures and cultures! Moderna språk has been published every year since 1906, and it is thus one of the oldest journals of its kind in the world. Until 2008, Moderna språk came out in a printed version, but from 2009 it is published as a web-based journal on the Internet. Our aim is to publish all articles from 1906 and onwards electronically, by gradual stages. The articles in Moderna språk cover areas within linguistics, literature and culture and the main target group is language teachers and researchers at schools and universities worldwide. The publication is peer-reviewed.