Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's El buen patrón (2021)

Citation

Collins J & Gilligan S (2025) Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's El buen patrón (2021). Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2025.2504258

Abstract
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing from film, fashion and cultural studies, this article examines the in8ersectional representation of the gendered dynamics of power, status and authority in Fernando León de Aranoa's 2021 Goya award winning corporate satire El buen patrón (The Good Boss). Through the close visual analysis of the costuming by designer Fernando García, we argue that dressing, undressing, and redressing function to visualise the ways that the illusionary stability of patriarchal power is constructed, destabilised and reconfigured in the shifting social contexts of contemporary post-Franco Spanish culture.

Keywords
Masculinities; costume; Twenty-first century Spanish Cinema; Fernando Leon de Aranoa; El buen patron; Fernando Garcia; Menswear; Patriarchy/partriarchalism; Javier Bardem

Journal
Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies

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