A Postmodern Exploration of the Screened Dialogue between Past and Present and the Acceptance of Domestic Gender Performativity in Ventura Pons’ Barcelona (un mapa) (2007)
This paper explores the postmodern elements in Pons’ film Barcelona (un mapa) (2007). Of interest is the screened portrayal of the tolerant relationship between a Catalan husband and wife and the fluid gender notions adhered to by the former; a man who repeatedly engages in gender performativity within the safety of his own home and who by refraining from doing so in a public external space could