000016399 001__ 16399 000016399 005__ 20150429092408.0 000016399 037__ $$aTAZ-TFG-2014-1719 000016399 041__ $$aeng 000016399 1001_ $$aCabetas Burillo, Raquel 000016399 24500 $$aThe Dark Side of Conformism: A Critique of the 1950s Domesticity and Gender Ideology 000016399 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza$$c2014 000016399 506__ $$aby-nc-sa$$bCreative Commons$$c3.0$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 000016399 520__ $$aAbstract: This essay studies the gender and social relations in the American 1950s and their underlying tensions through the analysis of Sam Mendes’ film Revolutionary Road (2008), an adaptation of the eponymous Richard Yates’ novel published in 1961. A textual analysis shows how the film offers a critique of the conformism to the 1950s conservative gender and domesticity ideology best represented in U.S. suburbia. Like the original novel, the film demonstrates that Suburban America was not as idyllic as was presented to the world. The suburban home became a ‘golden cage’ for those couples who had difficulties in conforming to the strict gender roles and in maintaining specific social appearances. Conforming to traditional gender roles became politically important in the Cold War era when social consensus and ‘togetherness’ were believed to be necessary to prove the U.S. superiority over communist enemies. The results of those conservative measures were a great anxiety among men and women about fitting into those gender roles, and the exclusion and pathologization of those who deviated from the norm. In this film Mendes revisits the 1950s decade to denounce a similar conformism observed in the U.S. in the first decade of the twenty-first century after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. 000016399 521__ $$aGraduado en Estudios Ingleses 000016399 540__ $$aDerechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons 000016399 6531_ $$arevolutionary road 000016399 6531_ $$ayates 000016399 6531_ $$amendes 000016399 6531_ $$asuburban america 000016399 6531_ $$adomesticity 000016399 6531_ $$agender roles 000016399 6531_ $$aconformism 000016399 700__ $$aLoyo Gómez, Hilaria$$edir. 000016399 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bFilología Inglesa y Alemana$$cFilología Inglesa 000016399 8560_ $$f629701@celes.unizar.es 000016399 8564_ $$s386150$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/16399/files/TAZ-TFG-2014-1719.pdf$$yMemoria (eng)$$zMemoria (eng) 000016399 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:16399$$pdriver$$ptrabajos-fin-grado 000016399 950__ $$a 000016399 980__ $$aTAZ$$bTFG$$cFFYL