The “pleasure” of wife-murder drama: The aesthetics of gender-based violence in Palabras encadenadas

• Autores: Sonia Pérez Villanueva
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 61-78
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The film Palabras encadenadas (2003), directed by Laura Mañá, tells the story of a man who kidnaps his ex-wife, hides her in the basement, and abuses her psychologically and physically during the imprisonment until he kills her and rapes her corpse. Palabras encadenadas belongs to a group of films of the late twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first that share a common theme: intimate partner violence against women. In this respect, Duncan Wheeler, in his article “The Representation of Spanish Violence in Spanish Cinema” (2012), justifies this cinematographic interest and observes that “in the wake of the media...