Images of Madrid in Manuel Gutiérrez Aragóns Things I left in Havana/Cosas que dejé en La Habana
Date: 14 January 2011
Time: 9.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Speaker: Professor Guido Rings
This paper argues that, despite numerous claims for major transnational and transcultural developments in European Cinema, Spanish Cinema is still very much governed by mono-cultural concepts, which are reflected in the cinematic landscape. Like in German Migrant Cinema (Rings 2008), this tendency is based on (neo-)colonial paradigms which continue to inform official discourse and can be found as re-inscriptions in the films, even if they fight patterns of neo-colonial exploitation and racial discrimination within the boundaries of what is supposed to be the official model for intercultural relations: Madrid (see Empresa Municipal/Madrid City Council 2010).
The example chosen for this exploration is 'Things I left in Havana'/'Cosas que dejé en La Habana' (Gutiérrez Aragón 1997), as it marks a key period in the development of Spanish Cinema about migration (see Santaolalla 2007), promises a deconstruction of separatist concepts, and focuses on the Spanish capital.
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Time: 9.00am - 12.00pm
Venue: University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Speaker: Professor Guido Rings
This paper argues that, despite numerous claims for major transnational and transcultural developments in European Cinema, Spanish Cinema is still very much governed by mono-cultural concepts, which are reflected in the cinematic landscape. Like in German Migrant Cinema (Rings 2008), this tendency is based on (neo-)colonial paradigms which continue to inform official discourse and can be found as re-inscriptions in the films, even if they fight patterns of neo-colonial exploitation and racial discrimination within the boundaries of what is supposed to be the official model for intercultural relations: Madrid (see Empresa Municipal/Madrid City Council 2010).
The example chosen for this exploration is 'Things I left in Havana'/'Cosas que dejé en La Habana' (Gutiérrez Aragón 1997), as it marks a key period in the development of Spanish Cinema about migration (see Santaolalla 2007), promises a deconstruction of separatist concepts, and focuses on the Spanish capital.
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