Thought, Creation and Representation in the Field of Cultural Studies

Affiliated Research areas

• Cognitive basis of human development, developmental disorders; comparative cognition
• Texts and Concepts
• Theory and history of literature, comparative literature

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Identity
• OTHERNESS
• WOMEN'S WRITING
• ART AND PERFORMANCE
• GENDER.SEXUAL.QUEER-CUIR.CRIP
• MASS MEDIA. POPULAR CULTURE

Summary

- Studies on identity, otherness, subjectivity: IDENTITY, OTHERNESS AND SUBJECTIVITY STUDIES.
- Studies on Contemporary Art and Performance: CONTEMPORARY ART AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES.
- Cultural and literary studies. Female writing: LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES. WOMEN'S WRITING.
- Gender studies. Sexual and functional diversity. Queer-whose/crypt theory: GENDER STUDIES. SEXUAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY. QUEER-CUIR/CRIP THEORY. Study of the diverse topics related to roles, behaviors and stereotypes attributed to men and women, as well as the new theoretical and methodological approaches on this area. That includes feminist studies, transfeminism, masculinities, and also an analysis of sexual diversity, LGBTIQ* and queer-cuir studies, understanding it as the multiplicity of non-normative bodies, identities and gender expressions. The critical standpoint to functional diversity studies provided by the crip movement creates a common framework to question the bodies constructed as normalized and/or subjected to be so.
- Film studies. MEDIA. Popular culture: FILM STUDIES. MEDIA STUDIES. POPULAR CULTURE. Approach to the cinematographic reality from a cultural, artistic, economic, social and academic point of view. This perspective resorts to diverse methodologies: semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, feminism, etc. with the goal of delving into this art as the basic model of the culture of our time, which creates narrative outlines and also social and individual models of behavior. Mass media and communication will also be tackled: television, radio, press, internet, etc., as well as popular culture in its diverse manifestations: literary, musical, religious, artistic and in other modes of expression (comics, video games, animation).