La construcción cinematográfica del espacio en la alegoría política

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3846
dc.contributor.author	Martínez-Expósito Alfredo
dc.title	La construcción cinematográfica del espacio en la alegoría política. Alicia en la España de las maravillas
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	es
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-07-09
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-04-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-433-2/la-construccion-cinematografica-del-espacio-en-la/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-432-5/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-433-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-432-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Catalan cinema
dc.subject	Catalan cinema
dc.subject	Country image
dc.subject	Country image
dc.subject	Space in film
dc.subject	Space in film
dc.subject	Spanish cinema
dc.subject	Spanish cinema
dc.subject	Surrealism
dc.subject	Surrealism

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La construcción cinematográfica del espacio en la alegoría política

Alicia en la España de las maravillas

Alfredo Martínez-Expósito University of Melbourne, Australia

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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.

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09 Luglio 2020

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14 Aprile 2020

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-433-2

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978-88-6969-432-5

Keywords: Surrealism • Country image • Spanish cinema • Space in film • Catalan cinema

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-432-5/007

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