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"Kiss Of The Spider Woman"
Film Review # 25006
"Kiss Of The Spider Woman"
Examines the intertextuality of the 1985 film.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) |
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2002
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Examines the intertextuality of the 1985 film. Its alignment with several different genres including literary adaptations, prison genre, gay film genre, film musicals and political drama. Interaction of the genres. Connection to texts from theatre. How movies are used by the two protagonists to pass the time in prison.Looks at the motif of escape.From the Paper:
"In the film of Manuel Puig's novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, two men share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. One is Molina, a homosexual sentenced to eight years in prison for the corruption of minors, and the other is Valent?n, a young Marxist imprisoned for revolutionary activities. Molina tries to pass the time by telling the younger man about films he has seen, recreating the stories with words. It is in the course of these retellings of the different films that the viewer gets to know these characters and sees how they develop as they interact with one another and with the images recalled from films by Molina. Over the course of the film, the two men become much closer, developing a friendship they would be unlikely to have in the "real" world outside of prison. The setting is artificial in that it brings together two people from different class ..."More papers on "Kiss Of The Spider Woman":
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"Kiss Of The Spider Woman" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Film-Review-Kiss-Of-The-Spider-Woman/25006
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""Kiss Of The Spider Woman"" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Film-Review-Kiss-Of-The-Spider-Woman/25006>
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