Versions and conversions of the serial killer. Scenes in the gothic museum in The Fall

Authors

  • Ariel Gómez Ponce CONICET, Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Keywords:

TV series, gothic, serial killers, Mikhail Bakhtin, genre memory

Abstract

This article reflects on how a TV series as The Fall has transformed the roots of the literary “museum” of Gothic, alluding to its aesthetic nature as a privileged way of capturing cultural meaning. From the proposal of genre as a struggle between permanence and innovation, we recover the contributions of Mikhail Bakhtin on “motives” that, belonging to the memory of Gothic, emerge as concrete images in the television narrative. Our hypothesis poses that these motives collaborate with the staging of a central ambiguity: that confusion of borders between rejection and fascination that generates, a fiction figure as the serial killer in our contemporaneity. Based on this, the analytical journey tries to explain how certain paradigmatic motives hold the representation of the social transgression in this moral monster, and shed light on the construction of a spectator who is immersed in the constant polarity of the seductive and perverse elements.

Author Biography

Ariel Gómez Ponce, CONICET, Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Ariel Gómez Ponce es Doctor en Semiótica y Profesor en Español como Lengua Materna y Lengua Extranjera por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Es Becario CONICET y ha realizado un posdoctorado en Ciencias Sociales, en el Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UNC. En reuniones y jornadas científicas y en su reciente libro Depredadores. Fronteras de lo humano y series de TV (Córdoba, 2017), problematiza la construcción y la discusión de modelos culturales en series televisivas, a partir del campo de la semiótica de la cultura (Yuri Lotman, Mikhail Bakhtin). 

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Published

2018-07-31

How to Cite

Gómez Ponce, A. (2018). Versions and conversions of the serial killer. Scenes in the gothic museum in The Fall. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (19), 114–132. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/21187

Issue

No. 19 (2018): The Artists’ Library: Uses of Literary Thought in Film and Visual Arts (1975-2015)

Section

Monograph

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