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- Title
Luis García Berlanga y la representación de La Guerra Civil española: La vaquilla (1985) como esperpento cinematográfico.
- Authors
Sánchez López, Fernando
- Abstract
The esperpento, beyond the literary conception coined by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, entails singular aesthetics which can be transferred to other arts, as it is the case of film. The cinematic esperpento, even though it assimilates its main characteristics into the audiovisual medium, has not had a historically well-defined path within Spanish film, as it did not quite fit in the common waves of dissident cinema and francoist cinema. As an answer to this problem, the aim of this essay is to analyze La vaquilla (Luis García Berlanga, 1985) as a paradigmatic example of the Spanish cinematic esperpento, even if it has not been considered like that by other authors or has been generally ignored. Through this analysis, the aesthetic functionality of the genre will be observed and its systematically deforming approach will lead to draw unique conclusions regarding the extremely traumatic event that the Spanish Civil War was, which shaped the historical memory of the nation. In this sense, the narrative possibilities of the cinematic esperpento and the necessity to give the genre a historical place of its own will be vindicated.
- Subjects
SPANISH Civil War, 1936-1939; NARRATION in motion pictures; SPANISH films; DISSENTERS; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Doxa Comunicación, 2022, Issue 35, p363
- ISSN
1696-019X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31921/doxacom.n35a1574