Destruction, Reconstruction and Resistance: The Skin and the Protean Body in Pedro Almodóvar’s Body Horror <i>The Skin I Live In</i>
The instinct to tame and preserve and the longing for eternal beauty makes skin a crucial element in the genre of the Body Horror. By applying a gendered reading to the art of destruction and reconstruction of an ephemeral body, this paper explores the significant role of skin that clothes a protean...
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MDPI AG
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/1/54 |