Eat my meat!: Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of Femininity in Maria Cañas’ Work
Abstract
María Cañas is one of the most prominent practitioners of found footage filmmaking in Spain. In her work of appropriation and reassembly, she revisits genres such as pornography and melodrama, and constructs a critical evaluation of the contemporary media landscape and of the nationalist discourses, paying particular attention to the representation of the body and female subjectivity within these narratives. Deploying textual analysis as its main methodology, this article examines the strategies used by the artist to deconstruct femininity—strategies such as mimesis, parody and irony—with the double intention of undermining the authority of certain dominant representations and of articulating less oppressive ones.Downloads
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