‘El mundo iluminado, y yo despierta’: screening Sor Juana in the films of Bemberg and Pereda

Literary life has proved a popular subject for filmmakers over the years: poets in particular have become the fictionalized protagonists of biographical pictures or historical dramas.¹ The question that occupies this chapter is what happens to the literary work when the writer becomes the subject of...

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Main Author: Bollig, B
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Published: Legenda 2022
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description Literary life has proved a popular subject for filmmakers over the years: poets in particular have become the fictionalized protagonists of biographical pictures or historical dramas.¹ The question that occupies this chapter is what happens to the literary work when the writer becomes the subject of the filmmaker’s attentions. As Speranza (2002) argues, it is perfectly possible to screen such a story — particularly that of a colourful or controversial poet — without producing a ‘poetic’ film, in any understanding of the term. Here we compare a film from Argentina and a Mexico/Canada co-production, both based on the life and...
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