Análisis de las narrativas audiovisuales de los personajes lésbicos en la serie Orange Is The New Black

Abstract

The following article analyses audiovisual narratives of lesbian characters at the american tv series Orange is the New Black. That states the story of Piper Chapman who for her felony of carrying money from drug trade stays one year at jail. In jail, she discovers her own decision to be a lesbian and gets to listen to some of her cellmates, friends and enemies’s stories in prison. The object of communicational study is the content in relation to audiovisual narratives that generate from the characters that maintain lesbian relationships in the series. Six episodes are analyzed, one by each season to understand the developing and evolution of the series characters. The analysis of televisive text and it’s language proposed by Francesco Casetti and Federico di Chico in their work “Analysis of Television” (1999) is the methodology used in the following investigation to understand the approach made in lesbian characters through description, connotation and code analysis of reality (verbal and non verbal) and discursive (visual and sounding). The narrative of the series raise characters representation and lesbian relationships that are maintained under the heterosexual normative as a centerpiece. This is highlighted in loving relations where the basis of romantic love as a myth of the patriarchal system and in the stereotyped representation of the feminine and masculine lesbian, where the second is the one that mainly exercises power.