Número 23
Puntos de Fuga

La maternidad contemporánea entre la catástrofe y el sacrificio. Un análisis de <em>Lo imposible</em>

Asunción Bernardez-Rodal
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Biografía
Ignacio Moreno-Segarra
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Biografía

Publicado 01.01.2017

Palabras clave

  • Cinema,
  • The Impossible,
  • feminism,
  • disaster,
  • sacrifice.

Resumen

Este texto analiza la imagen de la maternidad que se proyecta en la película española Lo imposible (The imposible, Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012) desde dos elementos contextuales diferentes: el cine de catástrofes y el estereotipo de la Mater dolorosa. En él se argumenta que la figura de la madre sacrificial responde a un momento específico de crisis económica y social donde las figuras tradicionales de la madre sacrificada y cuidadora aportan seguridad en un universo de incertidumbre generalizada.

 

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