Melancholy, Women and the film Solas

A Cavellian Essay

Authors

  • José V. Bonet-Sánchez University of Valencia (Spain)
  • David García-Ramos Escuela de Doctorado de la Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201924128

Abstract

This paper connects Benito Zambrano's film Solas (1999) with the melodrama of the unknown woman genre or family of films proposed by Cavell (2009). To achieve this aim, the Cavellian associative "method" will be first introduced and then the most characteristic traits of said genre and the image of the woman it depicts will be described, particularly the self-knowledge of the female lead character, her relationship with the male world, her emancipation from it through the voice she conquers. The rest of the paper consists of a reading proposal of Zambrano's film within a Cavellian framework albeit highlighting melancholy as a cultural myth (Bartra 2001), the woman's relationship to the victim's sacrifice (Girard 2007) and the conquest of a voice as an appropriation of the symbolic order, which is key to self-understanding  (Cavell 2002b). It is finally suggested that the Cavellian genre may "learn" something from Solas in all the above said orders.

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Published

2019-12-16

How to Cite

Bonet Sánchez, J. V., & García-Ramos, D. (2019). Melancholy, Women and the film Solas: A Cavellian Essay. Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Research, 6(2), 109–127. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201924128