Revised narco-aesthetics/ethics : from narcoculture to a female gaze?

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Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez

Abstract

 How have stories about narcos evolved since the original boom of the subgenre? This article evaluates the transition from a masculine perspective in film and TV about drug trafficking – where antiheroes were highly popular – to a female gaze that seeks to highlight care as a reaction to said conflict. Our work focuses on four films that feature narco-violence as their background: Tigers Are Not Afraid (Issa López 2017), Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez 2020), Prayers For The Stolen (Tatiana Huezo 2021) and La Civil (Teodora Mihai 2021). These films tell four stories of women striving to survive in a context filled with forced disappearances. These disappearances have become a recurring trope in recent narco-fictions and embody the violence and corruption that has plagued Mexico for the past two decades. The search for justice of these heroines becomes an initiation for the main characters, which transforms them and extracts them from their initial situation of vulnerability and subordination.

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