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The Perfect Miss Narco: On Hateful Representation of Women in Netflix TV Shows El Chapo and Narcos: Mexico

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  • The aim of this research paper is to rethink the representation of women in two Netflix TV shows, El Chapo and Narcos: Mexico

  • Concluding Remarks Campbell discusses how “in popular imagination, Latin American drug lords are conceived of a hypermasculine, folklorically macho characters whose excessive, extravagant lives rival those of movie stars and pop stars” (2009: 60)

  • If we look at different research and their papers on Mexican cinema on drug trafficking and gender, there are some efforts to give women more agency, and they surely have it

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Drug trafficking; TV shows; representation of women; narcoesthetics; spectacle; pop culture. The aim of this research paper is to rethink the representation of women in two Netflix TV shows, El Chapo and Narcos: Mexico. Body as a category is an important part of the analysis of instrumentalization and objectification of women in drug trafficking, and El Chapo and Narcos: Mexico exploit that aspect in the sense of Debord’s ideas on spectacle.

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