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dóvar throws light on the fact that the dominant reading does not automatically have
to be the right one, it is just one of many possibilities. In the end, meaning depends on
the context a specific motif is shown in.
CONClUsiON
Approaching the society and the world critically by means of film or art is indeed a
technique for framing the world as it is and for reframing it by questioning dominant
readings and revealing alternatives. By referring to different realisations of a motif in
diverse media, almodóvar demonstrates that the meaning of a particular aesthetic
representation strategy depends on the media’s typical qualities and is not fixed, but
a result of constant negotiation during a specific transmission process. He thus criti-
cally analyses meaning-making processes and simultaneously justifies his concept of
a multifaceted motherhood adaptable to everyone: if the qualities like absolute devo-
tion, grace or charity are attributed to the ideal mother Mary, consequently, every
person who behaves in this way becomes a mother. The references to the aesthetic
conventions serve almodóvar by emphasising that identity and authenticity are, like
meaning, fluid constructions in a constantly changing setting. Or as La Agrado, the
film’s transsexual supporting actress explains, showing her diverse plastic surgery
not depends on the context. The more people perceive one’s acting to be authentic, the more the
individual believes in its truth. Concerning the relationship between individual identity and authenticity
see e.g. Taylor 1991, also Butler 1991.
Fig. 2: The forgery of The Madonna of the Village (Marc Chagall, 1938–42) serves as a metaphor
for a decontextualised interpretation (Todo sobre mi madre, 00:33:44).
JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Band 01/01
- Titel
- JRFM
- Untertitel
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Band
- 01/01
- Autoren
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Herausgeber
- Uni-Graz
- University of Zurich
- Verlag
- Schüren Verlag GmbH
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2015
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Abmessungen
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Seiten
- 108
- Kategorien
- Zeitschriften JRFM