Bodies Sick with Exploitation, Consciences Unable to Rebel: Shoes (1916) and La petite marchande d’allumettes (1928)

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Ciencias da Comunicación
dc.contributor.authorBroton Capó, Maria Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorBarreiro González, María Soliña
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T13:56:11Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T13:56:11Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractAlthough twelve years separate Shoes (Lois Weber, 1916) from La petite marchande d’allumettes (Jean Renoir, 1928), the two medium-length films have much in common. Although the North American director’s narrative is based on a realist story and the French director’s film is inspired by a fairy tale, both show the female body as an object, one used by progenitors in order to satisfy their material needs and to obtain benefits. They both depict working-class women as submissive recipients of misfortune who assume as natural the circumstances that lead them to illness, prostitution, and death. Through the poetics of the image and the materiality of the suffering body, the two directors concentrate the reflexive core of female exploitation of the body
dc.description.abstractAunque doce años separan Shoes (Lois Weber, 1916) y La petite marchante d’allumettes (Jean Renoir, 1928) muchos son los puntos en común de estos dos mediometrajes. Pese a que la narración de la directora norteamericana está basada en un relato realista y el film del director francés se inspira en un cuento de fantasía, ambas historias muestran el cuerpo de la mujer como objeto, utilizado por sus progenitores para satisfacer sus necesidades materiales y por el capital para obtener beneficios. Ambos representan a las mujeres de clase trabajadora como recipientes sumisos de desgracias que asumen como naturales las circunstancias que las llevan a la enfermedad, la prostitución y la muerte. A través de la poética de la imagen y de la materialidad del cuerpo que sufre, ambos directores concentran el núcleo reflexivo de la explotación femenina sobre el cuerpo
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dc.identifier.citationBrotons Capó, M.M., and Barreiro González, M. S. (2023). Bodies Sick with Exploitation, Consciences Unable to Rebel: Shoes (1916) and La petite marchande d’allumettes (1928). Comparative Cinema, 11 (21), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.31009/10.31009/cc.2023.v11.i21.06
dc.identifier.doi10.31009/cc.2023.v11.i21.06
dc.identifier.essn2604-9821
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/39784
dc.issue.number21
dc.journal.titleComparative cinema
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final84
dc.page.initial67
dc.publisherUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.31009/10.31009/cc.2023.v11.i21.06
dc.rights(c) Comparative Cinema, 2023. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectLois Weber
dc.subjectJean Renoir
dc.subjectWorking women
dc.subjectShop window
dc.subjectSilent cinema
dc.subjectFemale body
dc.subjectMedium-length film
dc.subjectMujeres obreras
dc.subjectEscaparate
dc.subjectCine mudo
dc.subjectCuerpo femenino
dc.subjectMediometraje
dc.titleBodies Sick with Exploitation, Consciences Unable to Rebel: Shoes (1916) and La petite marchande d’allumettes (1928)
dc.title.alternativeCuerpos enfermos de explotación, conciencias incapaces de rebelarse: Shoes (1916) y La petite marchande d’allumettes (1928)
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dc.volume.number11
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