Theatricality as a fictional pact in Pedro Almodóvar's "The Human Voice"

Authors

  • Francisco Javier Amaya Flores

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2022376084

Keywords:

Pedro Almodóvar, film, drama, theatricality, intertextuality, The Human Voice

Abstract

This work aims to show the cinematographic theatricality in Pedro Almodóvar's films by analyzing the presence of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice in the three works of his filmography in which it appears:  Law of Desire(1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988) and The Human Voice(2020). The different ways in which the French writer's monologue is integrated into the three stories will make it possible to classify film theatricality, both from a thematic and formal point of view, and define an aesthetics where cinema and performance are identified and where a conscious distancing from what is real is produced which requires reinforcing the fiction pact with the spectator.

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Published

2022-01-03

How to Cite

Amaya Flores, F. J. (2022). Theatricality as a fictional pact in Pedro Almodóvar’s "The Human Voice". Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (37), 59–71. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2022376084

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Received 2021-11-01
Accepted 2021-12-26
Published 2022-01-03