Abstract

GOMEZ PONCE, Ariel. Vestidas para matar: De la ferocidad animal a la fatalidad femenina serial. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2015, n.34, pp.245-258. ISSN 1852-1568.

In this paper we propose to deal with audiovisual representations of femininity that play with the edges of gender constructions and assimilate sensuality with a hypothetical instinct baggage, postulating displacements of the heroic. We will focus on the mechanisms of modellization of the female body, from one of his most recent television manifestations: Nikita (2010-2012), fiction starring by a elite killer who experience his own body as weapon of choice. In terms of a cultural semiotics and in intersection with gender studies proposed by Teresa de Lauretis, we attend to a series (artistic texts which possess a high flow of cultural information) in order to hypothesize that culture makes visible the gender biological distance from a mythical-textual mechanics. This aspect locates the male hero as «creator of a difference», and assimilates semiotically non-humanity and femininity, displaying analogies between the animal aggressiveness and a plausible female ferocity. In new sociocultural coordinates, the reading of a historical figure of femininity as femme fatale allows us to calibrate certain textual shades that come to deconstruct binary oppositions canonized and somatize femininity corporeality as «animal body»

Keywords : television series; gender studies; cultural semiotics; animality; stereotypes.

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