CORPUL CA OBIECT AL EXPERIMENTULUI PATOLOGIC. DE LA NOIR-UL FRANCEZ LA PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
THE BODY AS OBJECT OF THE PATHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT. FROM THE FRENCH NOIR TO PEDRO ALMODOVAR

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze literary and visual resorts of the body as an object of pathology, of obsession and revenge as shown in the novels of Jean Redon and Thierry Jonquet and their counterpart in film, represented by Georges Franju and Pedro Almodóvar's creations. The origins stem from the French noir novel, and as the films mentioned are rather scarcely received, this approach to contextualise the four creations is not necessarily a bet won from the beginning. Moreover, as critics note, both novels and films have a significant bizarre and shocking character, and are not to the liking of all cinema or literature lovers. We talk in this article about a period of half a century, the last half, where the objectification of the body is no longer a novelty; however, the idea of using the (living) body as a source of spare parts or that of arbitrary forced sex change still raise eyebrows, if not even induces distress. The male and female body are delimited by an increasingly blurred line, be it cultivation and skin graft or transgender experiment.

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