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Configuraciones De Las Imágenes De Las Enfermedades Mentales En La Serie Animada Bojack Horseman CONFIGURACIONES DE LAS IMÁGENES DE LAS ENFERMEDADES MENTALES EN LA SERIE ANIMADA BOJACK HORSEMAN Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Maestría en Estudios Culturales Bogotá, Colombia 2020 CONFIGURACIONES DE LAS IMÁGENES DE LAS ENFERMEDADES MENTALES EN LA SERIE ANIMADA BOJACK HORSEMAN Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo Línea de investigación Códigos y prácticas expresivas y estéticas Grupo de investigación Laboratorio de investigación visual Tesis presentada como requisito parcial para optar al título de: Magíster en Estudios Culturales Directora: Zenaida Osorio Porras Doctora en Ciencias de la Información -Comunicación y Periodismo- Profesora Facultad de Artes Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Maestría en Estudios Culturales Bogotá, Colombia 2020 Dedicatoria Dedico estas páginas a quienes son y han sido en mi vida: A mi madre, a mi padre y a mi hermano, porque están conmigo siempre improvisando todas las maneras. Inspiraron mi historia, me apoyaron y seguirán haciéndolo. Ver televisión y hablar con ellxs es uno de los grandes placeres de mi vida. A mis cinco amigxs que celebraron al saber que hablaría, por fin, de mi experiencia con la enfermedad mental y de una de sus series de televisión favoritas. Resumen Esta investigación identifica y sugiere relaciones entre del contexto familiar. BoJack Horseman es una de las la enfermedad mental y las series animadas para adul- producciones que trata la enfermedad mental como txs, producidas por plataformas televisivas de strea- una experiencia en la que se reconocen numerosas ming, puntualmente trata la enfermedad mental en la personas diagnosticadas con trastornos mentales en serie BoJack Horseman de Netflix. En la aproximación distinto grado. En la serie, la mayoría de los persona- metodológica, realizada desde los estudios culturales, jes diagnosticados son mujeres, de una misma línea la autoetnografía, la investigación visual y los estudios genealógica que comparten la herencia genética y las de serialidad se mezclaron para dar cuenta de la coexis- preguntas por el sentido de la vida, la maternidad, el tencia, que podría decirse necesaria, de la enfermedad aborto, el éxito y la felicidad. Lo que sugiero es que mental como experiencia vivida –en este caso por una las mujeres animadas de la serie tuvieron todo que ver mujer y su familia—, con la de la enfermedad mental con el equipo de mujeres directoras, creadoras, rea- como experiencia animada —de la ficción, protagonizada lizadoras, productoras e ilustradoras que dieron vida por un caballo—, coexistencia en la que la presencia a BoJack Horseman y que reorientaron y modificaron de las mujeres resulta, según mi opinión, ser parte sus propios diagnósticos sobre la enfermedad mental, clave para explicar lo que lxs criticxs, especialistas y para llevarlos a sus trabajos creativos en un proceso seguidores consideran uno de los logros de la serie: terapéutico y público que amplió la discusión sobre tratar la enfermedad mental eludiendo los estigmas la enfermedad mental en la televisión y fuera de ella. comunes, y hacerlo en un entorno mediático trans- Se trata desde los estudios culturales, de mujeres que medial y transnacional. tomaron agencia sobre sus propios diagnósticos. La inclusión de la enfermedad mental en las produc- Palabras clave: ciones televisivas de Netflix, HBO y Amazon incre- enfermedad mental, BoJack mentó en los últimos diez años, a la par que la enfer- Horseman, Netflix, culturas mediáticas, agencia—mujeres. medad mental como experiencia institucionalizada y medicalizada en empresas y universidades, más allá Abstract This research work identifies and suggests relationships degrees, are recognized. In the series, most of the between mental illness and adult animated TV series, characters that are diagnosed are women, of the same produced by television streaming platforms, specifically genealogical line who share genetic inheritance and I address mental illness in the original Netflix series question the meaning of life, motherhood, abortion, BoJack Horseman. In the methodological approach, success and happiness. What I suggest is that the ani- carried out from the field of cultural studies, autoeth- mated women in the series had everything to do with nography, visual research and seriality studies are mixed the team of female directors, creators, filmmakers, to account for the coexistence, which could be said to producers and illustrators who were part of BoJack be necessary, of mental illness as a lived experience— Horseman and who reoriented and modified their own in this case, of a woman and her family—, with that of diagnoses of mental illness, and took them to their crea- mental illness as an animated experience— of fiction, tive works in a therapeutic and public process, which starring a horse—, a coexistence in which the presence broadened the discussion about mental illness on the of women is, in my opinion, a key part in explaining television screen and outside of it. From the field of what the critics, specialists and followers consider cultural studies, this observation is about women who one of the achievements of the TV series: treating took agency over their own mental illness diagnoses. mental illness avoiding common stigmas, and doing it Keywords: mental illness, in a transmedia and transnational media environment. BoJack Horseman, Netflix, media cultures, agency— The inclusion of mental illness in the television pro- women. ductions of Netflix, HBO and Amazon has increased in the last ten years, along with mental illness as an institutionalized and medical experience in companies and universities, beyond the family context. BoJack Horseman is one of the productions that treats men- tal illness as an experience in which numerous people who are diagnosed with mental disorders, to varying Tabla de contenido INTRODUCCIÓN 1 CAPÍTULO I. MIS RELACIONES CON LA ENFERMEDAD MENTAL 13 Un enfoque en estudios culturales 14 Mis experiencias con la enfermedad mental 16 Mi mamá 17 Yo 23 La enfermedad mental 30 La sensación de malestar 31 Los diagnósticos 34 Las mujeres y las enfermedades mentales 37 Prácticas de visualización televisiva: maratón de series —Binge watching— 48 El vocabulario psiquiátrico en lo cotidiano 53 La internación en clínicas psiquiátricas 56 La enfermedad mental bajo el enfoque de los estudios feministas en discapacidad 59 VI CAPÍTULO II. LA PRESENCIA Y EL TRATAMIENTO VISUAL Y NARRATIVO DE LAS ENFERMEDADES MENTALES EN LA SERIE ANIMADA BOJACK HORSEMAN 61 Netflix 63 Las discusiones en torno a la enfermedad mental en algunas de las producciones de Netflix 67 La serie animada BoJack Horseman 73 Serie de entretenimiento 74 Serie de animación para adultos entre/inter especies 74 Serie de animación para adultxs que trata el tema de la enfermedad mental 77 Serie de televisión o película que trata el tema de la enfermedad mental 77 Programa transmedial 78 La enfermedad mental en BoJack Horseman 79 Sobre la búsqueda de la felicidad 79 El humor y la crítica social, herramientas para discutir la enfermedad mental 82 Perspectivas de género 84 Perspectivas de clase 86 Presencia de cinco enfermedades mentales en BoJack Horseman 89 Depresión 89 Ataques de ansiedad 90 Ansiedad 91 Histeria y lobotomía 92 Demencia 93 Estrategias de investigación visual y enfermedades mentales en BoJack Horseman 94 VII CAPÍTULO III. MUJERES QUE TOMAN AGENCIA SOBRE LOS DIAGNÓSTICOS DE ENFERMEDAD MENTAL 115 Mujeres y enfermedad mental en BoJack Horseman: directoras, productoras, escritoras y diseñadoras 116 Agencia sobre los diagnósticos de enfermedad mental desde los estudios culturales 117 Mujeres productoras, escritoras, ilustradoras y directoras en BoJack Horseman 124 Lisa Hanawalt 126 Ella y yo: la enfermedad como Kyle 132 Uso del humor y del encuentro entre los animales no humanos y humanos 132 Kate Purdy 134 Los diagnósticos de enfermedades mentales en las historias familiares 138 Vida emocional y reconocimiento facial 140 Minhal Baig 142 La relación madre/hijxs 147 Anne Walker Farrell 148 Ilustrar la experiencia con la enfermedad mental 152 #Metoo, #TimesUp 154 Alison Tafel 155 Esa voz de mi cabeza que me dice que soy tonta, gorda y fea, se va ¿verdad? 158 Identificación y distanciamiento de sus experiencias con la enfermedad mental 159 Lxs jóvenes y las ideas de enfermedad mental en BoJack Horseman 160 El aborto, la maternidad y el abuso sexual 161 REFLEXIONES FINALES 163 BIBLIOGRAFÍA 174 VIII Lista de imágenes Pliego 1. BoJack Horseman: memes y stickers. 63 Pliego 2. Personajes de BoJack Horseman: escalas de animalidad y edad. 72 Pliego 3. Lazos de parentesco: familia Horseman. 83 Pliego 4. Mujeres y feminización de las enfermedades mentales. 92 Pliego 5. La familia Horseman: correlato de la enfermedad mental. 95 Pliego 6. Medicalización e imágenes de la enfermedad mental. 98 Pliego 7. Formulación visual de la enfermedad mental en los stocks de imágenes. 101 Pliego 8. Estrategias de serialidad en BoJack Horseman. 104 Pliego 9. Agendas informativas: dentro y de BoJack Horseman. 107 Pliego 10. Citas visuales: obras de arte en BoJack Horseman. 109 Pliego 11. Autorías y mujeres en BoJack Horseman. 118 Pliego 12. Índice de los 12 pliegos sobre BoJack Horseman. 170 IX Introducción I. ENFERMEDAD MENTAL: EXPERIENCIAS PSIQUIÁTRICAS Y TELEVISIVAS EN LA COTIDIANIDAD El objetivo de esta investigación es explorar las relacio- Esta tesis es el resultado de mi esfuerzo por poner todo nes posibles, vistas desde los estudios culturales, entre ello junto: de todxs
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