Towards New Ways of Representing History: Generic Innovations in the Historical Biopic in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Pastor-González, Victoria
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
• dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:36Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.date.modified 2021-07-15T09:16:52Z
• dc.description.abstract As virtual sites of public memorialization, historical biopics play an important part in shaping our view of the past. The genre employs a range of formal and narrative strategies in order to create persuasive narratives about historical characters and events. However, nation-specific socio-cultural and industrial conditions frequently determine whose lives are deserving of biographical treatment and how their stories are told. The following comparative analysis of two recent historical biopics, Clara Campoamor, The Forgotten Woman (Clara Campoamor, la mujer olvidada, Laura Mañá, 2011) and While at War (Mientras dure la guerra, Alejandro Amenábar, 2019), foregrounds some of these nation-specific circumstances in the Spanish context. It then proposes that these two works employ innovative strategies that signal possible new avenues for the historical biopic in Spain. In the case of Clara Campoamor, Mañá suggests alternative ways of representing historical female figures in the public arena, whilst in his film Amenábar mobilizes the conventions of the Hollywood biopic to aid transnational readability.
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• dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/378430
• dc.identifier 2604-9821
• dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2021.v9.i16.04
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62286
• dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol. 9, Núm. 16 (2021): Biopic vs Biopic: Comparing Cinematic Lives, p. 52-74
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol 9, No 16 (2021): Biopic vs Biopic: Comparing Cinematic Lives, p. 52-74
• dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2021, Vol. 9, Núm. 16 (2021): Biopic vs Biopic: Comparing Cinematic Lives, p. 52-74
• dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/378430/483352
• dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2021 Comparative Cinema
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
• dc.subject.other Historical biopic
• dc.subject.other Feminist biopic
• dc.subject.other Male melodrama
• dc.subject.other Female suffrage in Spain
• dc.subject.other Spanish Second Republic
• dc.subject.other Laura Mañá
• dc.subject.other Alejandro Amenábar
• dc.subject.other Clara Campoamor
• dc.subject.other Miguel de Unamuno
• dc.title Towards New Ways of Representing History: Generic Innovations in the Historical Biopic in Spain
• dc.title Towards New Ways of Representing History: Generic Innovations in the Historical Biopic in Spain
• dc.title Towards New Ways of Representing History: Generic Innovations in the Historical Biopic in Spain
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion