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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2657
dc.contributor.author	Elder Cayce
dc.title	«Don Juan, ¿español?». Sobre la españolidad en Don Juan de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	es
dc.description.abstract	Although Franco-era film adaptations of the Spanish comedia are often dismissed as propaganda due to the regime’s broader ideological use of the Golden Age to promote ‘traditional’ Spanish values, this essay suggests that these films merit closer scrutiny. Saenz de Heredia’s 1950 film Don Juan is both a response to Hollywood’s Adventures of Don Juan (Vincent Sherman, 1948) and a narrative film that, while reclaiming the Don Juan legend as Spanish cultural patrimony, reveals inherent contradictions and flaws in Franco’s idea of Spain and Spanishness. Superficially, it is ideologically orthodox, but closer examination reveals how the film is symptomatic of defects in Franco’s projected vision of Spain.
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-07-12
dc.dateAccepted	2019-04-22
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-03-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-331-1/don-juan-espanol-sobre-la-espanolidad-en-don-juan/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-330-4/008
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-331-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-330-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Dictatorship
dc.subject	Dictatorship
dc.subject	Don Juan
dc.subject	Don Juan
dc.subject	Film adaptation
dc.subject	Film adaptation
dc.subject	Francisco Franco
dc.subject	Francisco Franco
dc.subject	National identity
dc.subject	National identity
dc.subject	Propaganda
dc.subject	Propaganda
dc.subject	Spanish Comedia
dc.subject	Spanish Comedia
dc.subject	Spanish Golden Age theater
dc.subject	Spanish Golden Age theater
dc.subject	Spanish cinema
dc.subject	Spanish cinema
dc.subject	Spanishness
dc.subject	Spanishness

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«Don Juan, ¿español?». Sobre la españolidad en Don Juan de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

Cayce Elder The University of Kansas, USA

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abstract

Although Franco-era film adaptations of the Spanish comedia are often dismissed as propaganda due to the regime’s broader ideological use of the Golden Age to promote ‘traditional’ Spanish values, this essay suggests that these films merit closer scrutiny. Saenz de Heredia’s 1950 film Don Juan is both a response to Hollywood’s Adventures of Don Juan (Vincent Sherman, 1948) and a narrative film that, while reclaiming the Don Juan legend as Spanish cultural patrimony, reveals inherent contradictions and flaws in Franco’s idea of Spain and Spanishness. Superficially, it is ideologically orthodox, but closer examination reveals how the film is symptomatic of defects in Franco’s projected vision of Spain.

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July 12, 2019

Accepted

April 22, 2019

Submitted

March 5, 2019

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978-88-6969-331-1

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978-88-6969-330-4

Keywords: Spanish cinema • Dictatorship • Spanishness • Don Juan • Spanish Comedia • Spanish Golden Age theater • Propaganda • National identity • Film adaptation • Francisco Franco

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-330-4/008

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