Smallville and the invention of identities: Clark Kent’s closet
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/ver.2013.27.66.06Abstract
The objective of this work is to question the notion of identity, articulating notions of Queer Theory and narrative elements of the television show Smallville, noting the possibility of finding elements in this show to help us problematize such notion. Thus, from the idea of a deviant identity, and figures of the closet and medical institutions as regulators of social life of the individuals, this work seeks to examine how these concepts are articulated, also considering its possible representations in the media and entertainment media. It was seeing that, although such representations are tied to the logic of Cultural Industry it´s possible find places of contradictions and points of rupture with the logic that establish and legitimize certain identities to the detriment of other, allowing us to discuss schemes and processes that contributes for marginalization and discrimination of individuals that are not legitimate in the social sphere, a reality still quite common nowadays.
Key words: identity, queer theory, television series
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