Lo grotesco como crítica social en el cine mexicano actual

  1. Alarcón Zayas, Violeta
Zuzendaria:
  1. Raúl Eguizábal Maza Zuzendaria

Defentsa unibertsitatea: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 2021(e)ko urtarrila-(a)k 22

Epaimahaia:
  1. Gonzalo Abril Presidentea
  2. Luis Deltell Escolar Idazkaria
  3. María Isabel Menéndez Menéndez Kidea
  4. José María Lozano Maneiro Kidea
  5. Rubén García López Kidea

Mota: Tesia

Laburpena

This research consists in the analysis of the function and critical capacity of the grotesque in contemporary Mexican cinema. On the one hand, I examined and clarified the fundamental types of grotesque in art in general, and in cinema in particular. On the other hand, I explored the elements linked to the grotesque that operate in the Mexican imaginary. Next, I have focused my analysis on four feature films which have a critical approach: A Wonderful World (Estrada, 2006), Halley (2012, Hofmann), The Wild Region (Escalante, 2016) and Tigers are not afraid (López, 2017). I applied them the concepts linked to the grotesque such as the monstrous, traumatic, the abject, the macabre, the carnival, the astonishing, etc. Verifying that the grotesque constitutes a fundamental device for the elaboration of counter-hegemonic discourses the oppressed and marginal social realities, as an essential element of the human imaginary that works from the ambivalence, inversion and transgression of mainstream structural frameworks.