The journalistic discourse on the detheatricalization of women in the performing arts: a case study of El País
Abstract
This article analyzes how women working in the performing arts are depicted in the Spanish newspaper El País. The approach relies on the theoretical concept of ‘detheatricalization’, developed as a category of analysis in this research. Detheatricalization concerns media strategies that dissociate women who work in the theater from aspects of their work and symbolically confine them to areas related to hegemonic conceptions of femininity. The main objective is to unravel whether the discursive strategies that the newspaper employs distance the professional role of women from the performing arts. It is concluded that the detheatricalization is shaped by media strategies such as the deviation of the focus of the news, the reiteration of gender when women lead to power positions or the hypermediatization of feminism.
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