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Ao adaptar ao cinema o seu musical off-Broadway Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell deu nova vida ao mito do Andrógino. Esta adaptação, de título homónimo, é uma proeza cinematográfica pois o realizador evidencia o tópico principal na própria temática da obra numa abordagem popular contrária aos pergaminhos das duas principais fontes canónicas: o mito bíblico da Criação e o relato mitológico que Platão inscreveu em O Banquete. A protagonista transgénero, de nome Hedwig, é uma autêntica cisão humana que busca uma totalidade simbólica através da sua arte: a música rock. O mito platónico da criação tem pois por correlato artístico a variante do glam rock. A arte musical é aqui equiparada a um acto de criação e Hedwig, como artista andrógina, é dotada dos dois princípios psíquicos (feminino e masculino), representando o cerne da dualidade artística. Hedwig and the Angry Inch não é uma obra sobre a criação em geral, mas sim um filme sobre o mito do autor e a sua natureza intrínseca.
ABSTRACT - The myth of the Androgyne is appropriated in John Cameron Mitchell’s movie adaptation of his eponymous off-Broadway musical play titled Hedwig and the Angry Inch. This is a cinematic feat as the filmmaker foregrounds the main topic in the theme itself in a lowbrow approach clashing with its two main canonical sources: the Christian myth of Biblical creation and Plato’s mythological account in The Symposium. The transgender protagonist, Hedwig, is a human divide looking to be symbolically made whole, which she eventually manages to do through her art as rock musician. Thus, Plato’s myth of creation finds its natural artistic correlate in glam rock. Musical art is here equated with creation, and the androgynous artist Hedwig, endowed with both female and male psychic principles represents the core of the artistic duality. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is not only an opus about creation in general, but a movie about the myth of the author and his/her intrinsic nature.
ABSTRACT - The myth of the Androgyne is appropriated in John Cameron Mitchell’s movie adaptation of his eponymous off-Broadway musical play titled Hedwig and the Angry Inch. This is a cinematic feat as the filmmaker foregrounds the main topic in the theme itself in a lowbrow approach clashing with its two main canonical sources: the Christian myth of Biblical creation and Plato’s mythological account in The Symposium. The transgender protagonist, Hedwig, is a human divide looking to be symbolically made whole, which she eventually manages to do through her art as rock musician. Thus, Plato’s myth of creation finds its natural artistic correlate in glam rock. Musical art is here equated with creation, and the androgynous artist Hedwig, endowed with both female and male psychic principles represents the core of the artistic duality. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is not only an opus about creation in general, but a movie about the myth of the author and his/her intrinsic nature.
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Androgyne Creation myths Plato’s symposium Rock music Glam rock Hedwig and the Angry Inch Andrógino Mitos da criação O Banquete de Platão Música rock
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“Plato’s Lesson on Gender: Androgyny As a Search for Totality in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)”. 2022. RHINOCERVS: Cinema, Dança, Música, Teatro 1 (1): 103-20. https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.1.n.1.pp103-120.
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Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa