Un descenso a los infiernos

Abstract

In this article, first published in Italian in the journal Tuttilibri (March-May 2000), Teresa De Lauretis suggests how in a number of films made in the 90s, such as Heavenly Creatures and Accomplices –there emerges a representation of homosexuality, especially feminine, removed from the repressive moralism of previous productions. However, despite the differences and the presence in these films of female subjects, there also emerges a love-and-death imagery that joins sexuality and aggressive pulsions