NEWS AND EVENTS ARCHIVE (2009-2014)
Archive
Marian Dimensions of Luis Buñuel's Viridiana'
Date: 29 April 2015 Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: Bowland North Seminar Room 25
DELC Guest Talk
Dr Sheldon Penn (University of Leicester)
'The Gaze and the Virgin: Marian Dimensions of Luis Buñuel's Viridiana'
This paper will focus on the Christian and, more specifically, Marian dimensions of Buñuel's celebrated film. I argue that Silvia Pinal's character and, more widely, women's roles in the film are developed via a surrealist re-imagination of the Passion and the cultural and theological significance of the Virgin Mary. Combining surrealist and realist aesthetics, Viridiana centres on the construction of female-gendered identity in a way that takes on and potentially subverts the classic 'male gaze' of the cinematic lens.
Contact:
Who can attend: Anyone
Further information
Associated staff:
Organising departments and research centres: European Languages and Cultures
Keyword: