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TY - JOUR
T1 - Una tercera lectura
T2 - the cinematic reader and the cult of virility in Manuel Puig's 'El beso de la mujer araña; (1976)
AU - Thakkar, Amit
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - In El beso de la mujer araña, Manuel Puig encourages a “tercera lectura,” informed by both cinema and literature. He creates a cinematic language reinforced by the spirit of “synthesis” and then incorporates a conceptual discourse which is beyond cinema because of the “límites de atención” of a “lector cinematográfico.” Puig expects readers to draw their own conclusions about the themes which emerge. I argue here that both the themes and aesthetic of the novel can be read as a challenge to the form and content of a literary and filmic “cult of virility.
AB - In El beso de la mujer araña, Manuel Puig encourages a “tercera lectura,” informed by both cinema and literature. He creates a cinematic language reinforced by the spirit of “synthesis” and then incorporates a conceptual discourse which is beyond cinema because of the “límites de atención” of a “lector cinematográfico.” Puig expects readers to draw their own conclusions about the themes which emerge. I argue here that both the themes and aesthetic of the novel can be read as a challenge to the form and content of a literary and filmic “cult of virility.
KW - Puig
KW - fiction
KW - cinema
KW - reading practices
KW - virility
KW - masculinities
U2 - 10.1080/14701847.2014.965886
DO - 10.1080/14701847.2014.965886
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 7
EP - 29
JO - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
SN - 1470-1847
IS - 1
ER -