La noción de performatividad de género para el análisis del discurso fílmico*

Abstract The concept of gender performativity developed and created by Judith Butler has been adopted by a lot of postmodern feminist scholars, making it a common "filler" that is present in texts about identity and agency. Taking as a starting point the film Rashômon , by Akira Kurosawa (1950), this paper debates the gender performativity as a conceptual tool with huge analytical power in four dimensions: (1) the discursivity, (2) the identity, (3) the social context, (4) the materiality. We stress specially the link between performativity and performance, to elucidate its validity and to sh...