Looking for Mr GoodWill in “Rancho Grande” and Beyond: The ‘Ghostly’ Presence of Shakespeare in Mexican Cinema
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Title: | Looking for Mr GoodWill in “Rancho Grande” and Beyond: The ‘Ghostly’ Presence of Shakespeare in Mexican Cinema |
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Authors: | Michel Modenessi, Alfredo |
Keywords: | Shakespeare, William | Theatre | Adaptation | Mexican cinema |
Knowledge Area: | Filología Inglesa |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Citation: | MICHEL MODENESSI, Alfredo. “Looking for Mr GoodWill in “Rancho Grande” and Beyond: The ‘Ghostly’ Presence of Shakespeare in Mexican Cinema”. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. No. 25 (2012). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 97-112 |
Abstract: | The Perhaps as an outcome of the “globalization” of Shakespeare studies, the film Huapango (dir. Iván Lipkies, 2003), avowedly based on Othello, seems to be drawing attention from scholars world-wide far more quickly and productively than the only other movie unabashedly adapted from a Shakespeare play in Mexican cinema: Cantinflas’s Romeo y Julieta (dir. Miguel M. Delgado, 1943). Although in Mexico these two pictures still stand alone in deriving integrally from a Shakespeare play, they are not, of course, the sole cases in Spanish-speaking cinema, where over the years a handful of films have been made with similar premises. All of them share a simple but potentially revealing feature, however: so far, no Spanish-speaking film made from Shakespeare can be deemed a “straightforward” performance/translation of its source. Nonetheless, films that ‘reset’, ‘cite’, or somehow ‘ex/ap-propriate’ Shakespeare are not wanting in Mexico. After briefly revisiting points I have made elsewhere on the two aforementioned pictures, this mostly descriptive paper* will aim to identify the “actual” or “ghostly” “presence” of Shakespeare in three films made at diverse stages in the history of Mexican cinema: Enamorada (dir. Emilio Fernández, 1946), El charro y la dama (dir. Fernando Cortés, 1949), and Amar te duele (dir. Fernando Sariñana, 2002). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/27449 | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2012.25.08 |
ISSN: | 0214-4808 | 2171-861X (Internet) |
DOI: | 10.14198/raei.2012.25.08 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Peer Review: | si |
Appears in Collections: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 2012, No. 25 |
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