Publication: La recreación de la biografía en el cine de Samuel Bronston. El caso de la preproducción de El Cid
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Cuando Bronston anunció que iba a llevar a las pantallas una figura mítica para España como el Cid, comenzó la polémica en España y después del estreno de El Cid (Anthony Mann, 1961), las críticas se centraron en la fidelidad del filme a la Historia de España o al Cantar de Mío Cid. En este trabajo voy a intentar justificar la pertinencia del tratamiento cinematográfico escogido en aquel momento, atendiendo a circunstancias contextuales, como la pertenencia del filme a un género consolidado, su inspiración en los textos del mito cidiano precedentes, su rodaje en la España franquista y la personalidad de los dos hombres que más influyeron en su realización: Samuel Bronston y Anthony Mann.
When Bronston announced that he intended to make a movie about such a mythical figure for Spain as the Cid, the controversy began in Spain and after the release of El Cid (Anthony Mann, 1961), criticism focused on how faithful the film was to the national history or on its likeness to the Spanish epic poem Cantar de Mío Cid. In this work, I will try to justify the relevance of the film treatment chosen at that time, taking into account contextual circumstances, such as the fact that the movie belongs to a consolidated genre; its screenplay’s inspiration in the myth of Campeador; the shooting of the movie in Franco's Spain and, finally, the personality of Samuel Bronston and Anthony Mann, the most influential celebrities in the film.
When Bronston announced that he intended to make a movie about such a mythical figure for Spain as the Cid, the controversy began in Spain and after the release of El Cid (Anthony Mann, 1961), criticism focused on how faithful the film was to the national history or on its likeness to the Spanish epic poem Cantar de Mío Cid. In this work, I will try to justify the relevance of the film treatment chosen at that time, taking into account contextual circumstances, such as the fact that the movie belongs to a consolidated genre; its screenplay’s inspiration in the myth of Campeador; the shooting of the movie in Franco's Spain and, finally, the personality of Samuel Bronston and Anthony Mann, the most influential celebrities in the film.
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Actas del Segundo Congreso Internacional de Historia y Cine organizado por el Instituto de Cultura y Tecnología Miguel de Unamuno y celebrado del 9 al 11 de septiembre de 2010 en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Cine, El Cid, Cine épico, Menéndez Pidal, Ramón (1869-1968), Bronston, Samuel (1908-1993), Mann, Anthony (1906-1967), Epic film
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La biografía fílmica: actas del Segundo Congreso Internacional de Historia y Cine (2, 2010, Madrid)[cd-rom]. Gloria Camarero (ed.). Madrid: T&B editores, 2011, pp. 628-645