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Hedwig and The Angry Inch: Plato at the Sundance Film Festival
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The aim of this article is to show how an ancient myth, that of the three genres, also known as the myth of the androgynous by Aristophanes in Plato¿s Symposium, becomes for John Cameron Mitchell the suitable image in order to explain the peculiar personality of a man, Hedwig, who by means of a surgical operation becomes in his turn an imperfect androgynous but symbolises the need of a sole mankind or the unity of different worlds, just as he belonged to both Berlins divided by an already fallen wall, which permitted their inhabitants to recover their lost unity and identity.
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Androgynous myth (Plato), Aristòfanes, Classical tradition, Platonisme, Androgyny (Psychology), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica), Eros (Greek deity), Mitchell, John Cameron, Cinematography, Gay and lesbian studies, Aristophanes, Platonism, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Motion picture), Mitchell, John Cameron
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GILABERT BARBERÀ, Pau. Hedwig and The Angry Inch: Plato at the Sundance Film Festival. [consulted: 16 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/12167