Zeynep Kayacık

Fabricating the Docile Subject: A Foucaultian Analysis of the Pedagogical Panopticon in La lengua de las mariposas

This study examines Jose Luis Cuerda’s film La lengua de las mariposas (1999), adapted from Manuel Rivas’s short stories, through the lens of Michel Foucault’s theories of panopticism, disciplinary power, and the production of "docile bodies." Set on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, the narrative captures how totalita...