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El 20-N o el azar en la Historia
2007
El azar, ese mismo vector que había hecho caer en la misma jornada a José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Durruti en nuestra guerra civil, tenía reservada una sarcástica mueca. Ocurrió el 20 de noviembre de 39 años más tarde, cuando aquéllos que tiraban los hilos de la escuálida vida de Francisco Franco decidieron (el los mismos sabrán, o quizá no, por qué) desconectar los débiles cables que lo ataban a la tierra . Barrieron así ritos y mitos. O tal vez no. Porque los mitos algo tienen de caprichoso: ora resisten las más briosas tempestades, ora se dejan llevar por suaves brisas. ¿Azar o necesidad? El texto compara los sepelios de los dos héroes de acuerdo con los códigos establecidos en el culto…
Resisting Bodies: Power Crisis / Meaning Crisis in the Zombie Film from 1932 to Today
2011
Critics have repeatedly focused on the political subtexts of the living dead films of George A. Romero, revealing, notably, how they reflect specific social concerns. In order to determine what makes the zombie movie and the figure of the zombie so productive of political readings, this article examines, first, the classic zombie movies influenced by voodoo lore, then Romero’s initial living dead trilogy (1968-1985), and finally some of the most successful films released in the 2000s. Resorting to a post-structuralist framework including Althusser’s notions of state apparatuses, Foucault’s distinction between subjection and subjectification, and Butler’s analyses of subversive resignificati…
"That's Real! That's What You Want!": Producing Fear in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) vs Zack Snyder's remake (2004)
2011
International audience; This article examines traditional oppositions between terror and horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978) and its recent remake (2004), by focusing on one of the major changes made by the producers of the remake: the use of running zombies, which emphasizes the danger the creatures represent to the characters, and enables the film-makers to resort to the kind of cheap startle effects that abound in contemporary slasher and action movies. That the living dead of 1978 were slow-moving allowed for contemplation of their pathetic state and questioned the border between living and dead. The 1978 film underlined how incompatible the living dead were with such techniques that rely…
Debito e ingratitudine: la sovversione del tumulo donum nelle Troades di Seneca
2017
Il contributo indaga il sovvertimento delle dinamiche di dono e debito nelle Troades senecane, alla luce dei modelli etici illustrati nel De beneficiis. Nella tragedia, Seneca riscrive la relazione di reciprocità vigente tra Achille e i Greci secondo il modello analogico del debito. L’ombra di Achille, infatti, accusa gli Achei di sottrarre gli honores dovuti ai suoi Mani, dando prova di ingratitudine. Come praemium, l’eroe esige quindi il sacrificio di Polissena, che rappresenta un sovvertimento della pratica rituale dei doni ai morti. Per comprendere il significato antropologico di questa lettura, si opererà un confronto ragionato tra la rappresentazione della prassi cultuale con cui a Ro…
ХЛЕБ И ПРАЗДНИК НА СИЦИЛИИ (Bread and Festivities in Sicily)
2011
Among the important parts of the traditional calendar rites in Sicily are bakery and pastry products made in special shapes. Being produced and consumed during certain rituals and being shaped to reflect their mystic connotations, these products become the integral signs of these rituals in both the constitutive and functional sense. What is refl ected in their symbolism, beliefs, and related practices is the deeply archaic peasant worldview in the framework of which these rituals had been shaped; and in particular, it is the meaning that is attached to the infl uence of chthonic forces in the cyclic reproduction of natural and social life.
The necrological side of Francoism: José Antonio Primo de Rivera
2013
El presente texto analiza lel tratamiento dado por la propaganda franquista al traslado del cuerpo de José Antonio Primo de Rivera desde Alicante hasta el Escorial en noviembre de 1939 y sus implicaciones para la relación carismática en el primer franquismo. This talk deals with the coverage and symbolic meaning of the cult of José Antonio Primo de Rivera in November 1939. As a matter of fact, the body of the founder of the fascist party Falange, was transported from Alicante to El Escorial in a pilgrimage that brings to light some issues about political charisma in the early Francoism.
Dead but not buried: Hannah Dunstan and the creation of a North-American community of memory
2019
Apresada por un grupo de indios abenakis, el 15 de marzo de 1697, Hannah Dustan presenció el asesinato de su bebé a manos de sus captores y sufrió todo tipo de torturas físicas y psicológicas. Ante el temor a padecer mayores tormentos a su llegada al campamento al que eran conducidos, la mujer asesinó a sus captores y les arrancó las cabelleras. Considerada por muchos como “madre de la historia norteamericana”, Dustan ha sido incluso tildada por otros de asesina de indios. Las múltiples versiones de su experiencia evidencian cómo los mitos nacionales femeninos y sus víctimas nativas se pusieron al servicio de una retórica política que justificó la colonización y el expansionismo norteameric…