El metacine en la filmografía de Pedro Almodóvar
Un estudio de la reflexividad cinematográfica aplicada a sus películas protagonizadas por directores de cine
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Metacinema, Cinematic Reflexivity, Film Director, Metafiction, Mise en Abyme, IntertextualityAbstract
Almodovar's filmography is prone to seek transtextual tools to narrate the stories of his films. Moreover, there is a deliberate intention on the part of the La Mancha-born director to make artists the protagonists of the plots, with a clear predilection for those who seek their livelihood through writing or film directing. Almodóvar's experiential knowledge of both activities undoubtedly facilitates the search for parallels between his own life and that of his characters. In this article, the elements of cinematographic reflexivity according to the most recent studies carried out by Yacavone, in whose discourse tools proposed by Genette, Kristeva and Waugh, among other linguists who preceded him, play a leading role, will be applied to films starring film directors. The intention of this study is to investigate how the recourse to the metacinematographic in these films facilitates Almodóvar's intention to talk about himself or about what he understands the performance of a film director to be. The results yield conclusions that point to the use of the same reflexive tools in each of the four films.
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