The Gender Politics and Struggle in the Reality and Fantasy－The Possibility of Returning to Chora in Pan’s Labyrinth

• Main Authors: Chang Li Wen, 張瓈文
• Other Authors: Wu Jen Yue
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s8u967

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 設計暨藝術學院碩士在職專班 === 101 === ABSTRACT Screen-written and directed by guillermo del toro in 2006, pan’s labyrinth Shows his attempt of subverting the patriarchal ideology and rebuilding the chora with a revised fairy tale.The cinematic elements, the performance of the actors/actresses, and the script altogether form a well-designed power structure, which opens for the audience’s different interpretation in terms of gender. This thesis will mainly focus on three aspects: (1) the correlation of the binary elements in the parallel worlds in the film, (2) the examination of the female characters, and how they struggle for their own rights of voicing in the perspective of post-modernism and psychoanalyticism, (3) the discussion of how the director, guillermo del toro, presents his idea of overthrowing the patriarchal ideology with cinematic techniques and storyline, and leads the audience to consider the possibility of returning to the chora Key Words : Pan’s Labyrinth, Post-modernism, Psychoanalyticism, power structure, chora