The construction of the feminine in Pedro Almodovar’s cinema

Abstract

This article analyses the technical production of femininity in the films of Almodovar through the elaboration of a "feminine universe" that led to his fame as a "director of women". It proposes a reflection on the symbolic universe and discursive formulations that can both resignify subjectivities and bring to light some canons or resonances of these discourses. It is argued that these narratives, as a counter-discourse, fall back on hegemonic visual standards and reveal, although implicitly, the notion of sexual inequality on which they are based.