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Marking Territory: Violence and Hypermasculinity in Ramon Térmens and Carles Torras’s Joves (2004)

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The film Joves (2004) presents three interconnected stories of young men in Barcelona, providing a bleak portrayal of violent young masculinity, which masters all the spaces where the characters move, tracing a descending course from the apex of the financial world (shaped by verticality and order) to the chaotic, enclosed underworld of night life, ending at a town near Barcelona where Pau and his friends live (a presumed horizontal, open space). Increasing male violence runs parallel to the route around the city; and the outskirts, represented as a suburban extension, serve as an example of the “uninterrupted” global cities that spread everywhere, absorbing the rural natural space, leaving no outside. Space appears as a battlefield where male and national borders are permanently threatened.

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  1. Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain

    Antoni Maestre-Brotons

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  1. Modern Languages & Literatures, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Maria C. DiFrancesco

  2. Modern Languages & Literatures, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA

    Debra J. Ochoa

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Maestre-Brotons, A. (2017). Marking Territory: Violence and Hypermasculinity in Ramon Térmens and Carles Torras’s Joves (2004). In: DiFrancesco, M., Ochoa, D. (eds) Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47325-3_4

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