Adopting a socio-anthropological approach, this article aims to examine how eleven films represent verbal, emotional and psychological violence within heterosexual couples, specifically: the cultural roots of it, and the communicative actions expressing it. Data analysis focuses on three forms of abuse: work devaluation; gaslight; control of body, actions, and agency. The anthropological approach deals with the cultural roots of verbal, emotional and psychological abuse. Moving from Gender Studies and a feminist approach, it considers gender- based violence as connected to a power asymmetry between men and women, expressed through this kind of violence. The sociological analysis focuses on the interactions and communicative actions representing it, by combining a systemic and constructivist theory of communication with Dialogue Studies, to show the connection between emotional abuse and monologues. The examined films represent a patriarchal background, which seems to authorise verbal, emotional and psychological violence, displayed mainly through monologic actions and affective manipulation.

La rappresentazione mediale della violenza verbale, emotiva e psicologica nella comunicazione intima. Analisi delle matrici culturali e delle interazioni in alcuni film / Rossi, Elisa; Capalbi, Antonella. - In: AG-ABOUT GENDER. - ISSN 2279-5057. - 11:21(2022), pp. 258-294. [10.15167/2279-5057/ag2022.11.21.1338]

La rappresentazione mediale della violenza verbale, emotiva e psicologica nella comunicazione intima. Analisi delle matrici culturali e delle interazioni in alcuni film

Elisa Rossi
;
Antonella Capalbi
2022

Abstract

Adopting a socio-anthropological approach, this article aims to examine how eleven films represent verbal, emotional and psychological violence within heterosexual couples, specifically: the cultural roots of it, and the communicative actions expressing it. Data analysis focuses on three forms of abuse: work devaluation; gaslight; control of body, actions, and agency. The anthropological approach deals with the cultural roots of verbal, emotional and psychological abuse. Moving from Gender Studies and a feminist approach, it considers gender- based violence as connected to a power asymmetry between men and women, expressed through this kind of violence. The sociological analysis focuses on the interactions and communicative actions representing it, by combining a systemic and constructivist theory of communication with Dialogue Studies, to show the connection between emotional abuse and monologues. The examined films represent a patriarchal background, which seems to authorise verbal, emotional and psychological violence, displayed mainly through monologic actions and affective manipulation.
2022
11
21
258
294
La rappresentazione mediale della violenza verbale, emotiva e psicologica nella comunicazione intima. Analisi delle matrici culturali e delle interazioni in alcuni film / Rossi, Elisa; Capalbi, Antonella. - In: AG-ABOUT GENDER. - ISSN 2279-5057. - 11:21(2022), pp. 258-294. [10.15167/2279-5057/ag2022.11.21.1338]
Rossi, Elisa; Capalbi, Antonella
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