Las ocho vidas de Ulysses Grant: el mito y el relato cinematográfico
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2015.v0i11.6077Abstract
Representada tanto o más que el resto de los mandatarios norteamericanos de todas las épocas, la figura del presidente Ulysses S. Grant no ha contado hasta el momento con un amplio predicamento en los estudios de cine, pese a haberse erigido, con idéntica continuidad, en icono singular, tanto de las principales virtudes como del particular carisma del pueblo estadounidense. Muchas han sido las películas y series de televisión que han retratado la trayectoria irregular del dirigente, tan reconocido por sus capacidades para la estrategia militar como vilipendiado por los casos de corrupción que salpicaron los últimos años de su mandato. A través del análisis narrativo, estético y dialógico de sus comparecencias cinematográficas esen-ciales, este estudio aúna y pone en valor, por vez primera, todas las perspectivas en torno a un personaje histórico cuyos vicios y excelencias quiso combinar el séptimo arte, configurándolo, con el correr de las décadas, como un símbolo único con ribetes de leyenda.
Abstrac:
Represented much or more than the rest of the American Presidents of all times, the figure of President Ulysses S. Grant has not counted so far with a large predicament in film studies, despite it have been erected, with identical continuity, a singular icon, both the main virtues and the particular charism of the American people. Many have been the films and television series that have portrayed the irregular path of this leader, so renowned for its capabilities for military strategy as reviled by cases of corruption that splashed the last years of his mandate. Through the narrative, aesthetic analysis and Dialogic of their essential film appearances, this study combines and put in value, for the first time, all perspectives on a historical character whose flaws and excellencies wished to combine the seventh art, setting it up, with the passing of decades, as a unique and legend-edged symbol.
Palabras clave:
Ulysses Grant; western; mito; biopic; relato.
Keywords:
Ulysses Grant; Western; Myth; Biopic; Story.
Downloads
Metrics
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
All contents published in Fotocinema Revista científica de cine y fotografía are protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. All about this license is available in the following link: <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0>
Users can copy, use, redistribute, share and exhibit publicly as long as:
- The original source and authorship of the material are cited (Journal, Publisher and URL of the work).
- It is not used for comercial purposes.
- The existence of the license and its especifications are mentioned.
There are two sets of authors’ rights: moral and property rights. Moral rights are perpetual prerogatives, unrenounceable, not-transferable, unalienable, imprescriptible and inembargable. According to authors’ rights legislation, Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía recognizes and respects authors moral rights, as well as the ownership of property rights, which will be transferred to University of Malaga in open access. The property rights are referred to the benefits that are gained by the use or the dissemination of works. Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía is published in an open access form and it is exclusively licenced by any means for doing or authorising distribution, dissemination, reproduction, , adaptation, translation or arrangement of works.
Authors are responsable for obtaining the necessary permission to use copyrighted images.