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0000-0002-7283-3015
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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.1386/SLAC_00082_1
Abstract: In his lifelong career as a film director, Ventura Pons has been praised for his unique and consistent approach to female roles. Between 1978 and 2018 he worked with virtually all of the most important Catalan actresses and developed a special affinity with some of them, such as Rosa Maria Sardà and Amparo Moreno. The extraordinary interpreting palette of both Sardà and Moreno provided Ventura Pons with a powerful repertoire of acting tones and hues, most notably in comedic genres. This article explores Pons’s construction of national discourses through the roles and performances of Sardà, focusing on the interrelated issues of self-image and national allegory. The notion of self-image, as developed by imagologists , is most relevant in the context of the Catalan nation-building project, which runs in parallel to the othering of aspects of Catalan identity that are increasingly felt as alien.
Publisher: Editorial CSIC
Date: 30-06-2013
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2017
Abstract: This article considers the ways in which Ocho apellidos vascos (2014) mobilizes salient aspects of nation branding, such as communication strategies that privilege a tourist’s gaze, authentication of local stereotypes, selective recycling of history, the commodification of place and commercial nationalism. The film was produced and released in 2014, only three years after ETA’s historic cease-fire declaration. The national context for the release was marked by the end of terrorist violence in the Basque Country, growing separatist sentiment in Catalonia and the concomitant decline in popularity of Brand Spain. Ocho apellidos vascos invokes branding discourses that have impact well beyond the seemingly innocuous regional stereotypes that structure the film’s imagery and plot. This article explores the influence of these discourses on the film’s branding of three key ‘places’: Spain, Seville and the Basque Country. In particular, it discusses the process by which ‘Spain’ is subject to erasure, ‘Seville’ is branded as a synecdoche for the whole of Spain and ‘the Basque Country’ is subject to an othering gaze that is incongruous with the recently formulated Basque Brand.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-11-2009
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 22-10-2018
Publisher: Universidad de Oviedo
Date: 09-11-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.1386/MACP_00034_5
Abstract: Review of: Identity Discourses About Spain and Catalonia in News Media: Understanding Modern Secessionism , Clara Juárez Miró (2020) Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, xii+182 pp., ISBN 978-1-79360-964-9, h/bk, $90.00, £69.00
Publisher: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
Date: 09-07-2020
DOI: 10.30687/978-88-6969-432-5/007
Abstract: The film Alice in Spanish Wonderland / Alicia en la España de las maravillas , directed by Jordi Feliu in 1978, was saluted by international critics as the first open questioning of Franco’s dictatorship on screen. The film was well received in the festival circuit before being dubbed into Catalan in the early 1980s. Yet, it soon fell into relative oblivion due to its demanding visual language and political content. Like other political allegories of Spain’s Transición, this film makes a complex use of cinematic space. Visual rhetoric of space includes instances of realistic, symbolic, and allegorical compositions. Intertextual allusions to Lewis Carroll’s Alice books further compound the construction of spaces in the film. The film makes use of four main strategies for the composition of space: discontinuity, incongruity, over-signification, and symbolism. Furthermore, the film’s powerful Catalan subtext generates a particularly complex set of hybrid spaces in which Spanishness and Catalanness are ambiguously expressed.
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
Date: 09-12-2021
Abstract: Dolor y gloria ejemplifica la ambigua relación de Almodóvar con su propia biografía como materia narrativa. En la escena central de la película (cúspide argumental, estructural y simbólica) se narra la toma de conciencia homosexual del protagonista. Un análisis de esta escena primordial revela la presencia de numerosos elementos mitológicos, tanto en el plano narrativo como en el simbólico.
Publisher: Universidad de Oviedo
Date: 09-11-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Edizioni Ca' Foscari
Date: 04-02-2019
DOI: 10.30687/978-88-6969-302-1
Abstract: Este volumen es un intento de renovación y desperiferialización de los estudios ibéricos, enfocando lo periférico como posicionamiento geográfico, cultural e ideológico, a la hora de cuestionar la óptica hegemónica del centro y revisar los cánones culturales preexistentes, y sus vacíos, exclusiones e invisibilidades. Se trata de una múltiple tarea – realizada desde Australia y Nueva Zelanda – que incluye el estudio de formas culturales periféricas, tanto de las llamadas nacionalidades históricas ausentes del canon cultural/literario/lingüístico castellano, como de otros grupos minorizados que han sido tradicionalmente desplazados a diferentes tipos de periferia, tales como los exiliados, los presos políticos, los inmigrantes, los gitanos, las clases trabajadoras, los sujetos coloniales o las minorías sexuales, en un contexto global.
Publisher: Edizioni Ca' Foscari
Date: 02-08-2019
DOI: 10.30687/978-88-6969-323-6/013
Abstract: An essential component in the study of peripheries, the epistemic construction of the notions of center and centrality can be approached from many different perspectives. This paper focuses on the intersection of two of them: the imagological paradigm and the theory of nation branding. In the intersectional space between them, concepts such as cultural stereotyping, soft power and commercial nationalism are mobilised in ways that differ when a peripherical mindset is favoured. These theoretical tools open up a reflection on the processes of resemantisation that the image of Spain undergoes in contemporary Catalan cinema, as exemplified in the later works by director Ventura Pons. A commentary of Miss Dalí (2018), in the broader context of Pons’ production and of recent Catalan cinema, leads to provisional conclusions about strategies such as erasure, rarefication, negativisation and othering.
Publisher: Peter Lang US
Date: 2018
Publisher: Edizioni Ca' Foscari
Date: 04-02-2019
DOI: 10.30687/978-88-6969-302-1
Abstract: Este volumen es un intento de renovación y desperiferialización de los estudios ibéricos, enfocando lo periférico como posicionamiento geográfico, cultural e ideológico, a la hora de cuestionar la óptica hegemónica del centro y revisar los cánones culturales preexistentes, y sus vacíos, exclusiones e invisibilidades. Se trata de una múltiple tarea – realizada desde Australia y Nueva Zelanda – que incluye el estudio de formas culturales periféricas, tanto de las llamadas nacionalidades históricas ausentes del canon cultural/literario/lingüístico castellano, como de otros grupos minorizados que han sido tradicionalmente desplazados a diferentes tipos de periferia, tales como los exiliados, los presos políticos, los inmigrantes, los gitanos, las clases trabajadoras, los sujetos coloniales o las minorías sexuales, en un contexto global.
No related grants have been discovered for Alfredo Martínez-Expósito.