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El discurso transgresor del cine de Rowland Brown (1931-1933): Una breve carrera en el Hollywood pre-code / The transgressive discourse of Rowland Br…
2016
El presente artículo consiste en el análisis de la obra y trayectoria fílmica del cineasta Rowland Brown, uno de los primeros (si no el primero) directores-guionistas de Hollywood. Desarrolló su carrera en el periodo Pre-Code y tan solo realizó tres idiosincráticas películas vinculadas al género gangster: Quick Millions (1931), Hell’s Highway (1932) y Blood Money (1933). Numerosas razones contribuyeron a que fuera expulsado de Hollywood y no se le permitiera volver a dirigir, entre ellas el discurso enormemente transgresor y crítico de su cine. A pesar de la singularidad y originalidad de su corpus fílmico, en la actualidad Brown es una figura olvidada, tan solo reconocido por un prestigios…
The Hays Office and the Two Updated Film Versions of Madeleine Smith’s Case: Letty Lynton (1932) and Dishonored Lady (1947)
2016
The celebrated case of Madeleine Smith, the Glasgow poisoner, who was tried for murder (and absolved) in 1857, has resulted in many novels, plays, films and television series. Hollywood, during its classical period, made two updated versions of the incident: Letty Lynton (Clarence Brown, 1932) and Dishonored Lady (Robert Stevenson, 1947). Even though the two films are separated by more than a decade, the self-censorship introduced by the studios themselves – MPPDA, commonly known as the Hays Office – exercised so much control over the two pictures that they can hardly be taken as equivalent. This article proposes a comparative analysis of the two films and how censorship acted as a constrai…
"Le Train pour Hollywood de Radoslaw Piwowarski" (1987) ou comment devenir une star à l'image de Marilyn Monroe
2019
Our analysis focuses on the symbolism of Marilyn Monroe in the context of the Polish cinema of the end of communism and the desires and fantasies it arouses. Drawing on the Polish representation of Hollywood's star in the Polish film Train to Hollywood, directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski in 1987, we propose here a reflection on the femininity, but also the theatrical and subversive dimension of Eros.
Book Review: General Politics: Hollywood and the CIA: Cinema, Defence, and Subversion
2014
Sospeso fra due mondi. Appunti per ina biografia di Erich Wolfgang Korngold
2011
Il saggio traccia un breve profilo biografico di E.W. Korngold (1897-1957), con particolare riferimento alle opere del "periodo americano" e alla sua 'attività nell'ambito del cinema hollywoodiano.
"Cinquant'anni sono un po' troppi per un bambino prodigio". Appunti per una lettura della "Città morta" di Erich Wolfgang Korngold
2009
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), bambino prodigio nel crepuscolo dell'Impero asburgico e genio in fuga dall'Europa nazista, ottiene il suo più grande successo teatrale con l'opera in tre quadri "Die tote Stadt" (La città morta, 1920). Il saggio traccia un breve profilo biografico dell'autore - anche in rapporto con le opere del periodo americano e con le musiche destinate al cinema di Hollywood - analizzando la genesi, la drammaturgia e i caratteri musicali della "Città morta".
Polish Jokes about Americans
2004
The objective of the present paper is to analyze the character of Polish jokes about Americans and to find out what these jokes say about Poles. The latter question results from the assumption that stereotypes reveal more about those who propagate them than about those who allegedly represent particular traits. The popularity of Americans is a certain novelty in contemporary Polish jokes and this fact could be interpreted as another element in the processes of so-called McDonaldization. The texts are presented by the chronology of events they refer to. Americans are perceived by Poles as the enemies of the Russians, and so as a positive protagonist, a symbol of the high standard of living a…
Media and Newspaper Representations
2006
In recent years there has been a large expansion of European scholarship on the representation of men and masculinities in a wide variety of media, including film, television, video, magazines, painting, fine art, music, dance, Internet, photography and advertising (for example, Middleton, 1992; Pedersen et al., 1996; Edwards, 1997; Nixon, 1997; Sterr, 1997; Penttila, 1999; Jokinen, 2000). However, relatively little attention has been given to the mundane medium of daily newspapers. When studying men, the daily press appears to have been frequently taken-for-granted, unlike, say, Hollywood film. Newspapers are literally everyday phenomena; their very ordinariness may mean that they are not …
El universo melodramático de Tennessee Williams y de Luchino Visconti : Senso, un encuentro fílmico
2017
El melodrama es uno de los géneros más cultivados por el dramaturgo norteamericano Tennessee Williams y el cineasta italiano Luchino Visconti. El escritor acababa de tener un rotundo éxito en Broadway con Un tranvía llamado deseo (1947) cuando se trasladó a Italia, donde el director había llevado a escena su primera gran obra, El zoo de cristal. La tendencia por crear unos personajes de profunda naturaleza dramática, incidir en el conflicto emocional y social, y exhibir un notable sentido estético, indica el paralelismo existente entre ambos. Así se pone de relieve en Senso (1954), una película marcada por la dicotomía entre el deber y el placer, el poder de la pasión y la crisis de la aris…
En alas de la danza: Miami Vice y el relato terminal
1989
La televisión ha logrado en Miami Vice (aunque esta solución probablemente será compaginada con otras muchas) realizar un sueño y una paradoja cruel: un relato que no es itinerario, vacío de trayecto, un relato que avanza tanto más frenéticamente cuanto que no se dirige a ningún sitio, porque su punto de llegada está en cada explosión, en cada unidad, idealmente tan pequeña, tan minúscula como los microchips de que se compone la tecnología punta. No es casual -y vale la pena exagerar un poco- que la metáfora del cosmos en formación aflore en algún episodio de la serie. Una galaxia en formación que recuerda vagamente aquellos Lone Drivers de los últimos spots publicitarios de automóviles. "T…