Audiovisual stories and misogynist violence

Abstract

The paper proposes a reflection on the relevance of imaginaries in shaping values and behaviour in our societies. To this end, it analyses how audiovisual fiction reproduces a biased, androcentric, vision of social reality, obscuring complex materialities and legitimizing patriarchal violence against women. Audiovisual production uses mechanisms that make the female collective invisible or consider it merely an accessory; structures that promote stereotyped representations that normalize the hierarchy between men and women; or, directly, devices that sanction material violence against women. The conclusion is that it is unavoidable to educate the look in order to critically position oneself in the face of the violence of the dominant fictional narrative, as well as the need to produce other explanations that are more in line with real life.