“The hunt of the man”: recreation of a legendary, fictional and historical motive in Carlos Saura’s La caza
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2011.748n2007Keywords:
Cinema and cinegetic literature, Carlos Saura, manhunt, war and huntingAbstract
The theme of man turned into a prey has been a recurrent one in the discourses and artefacts of human civilisation since prehistoric times. Fables and representations centred on “human hunting” have a meaning that reflects their contextual value as well as their ability to conjure up universal obsessions. The primitive syncretism and the hallucinatory power ascribed by some theoreticians to film images are certainly not alien to this timeless motif – a motif underlying myths which lend themselves to a variety of literary uses. Drawing upon Carlos Saura’s film The Hunt, this paper provides an interpretation of the devices used by film language, invested with analogical and symbolic force, in order to absorb and revive “traditional” artistic languages, be they verbal – as most of them are – or plastic languages, thanks to “polyphonic montage”, so beloved of Eisenstein, and the oblique reading of History which, at all times, has nourished part of man’s imagination.
Downloads
References
Anónimo (1969): “Propos de Carlos Saura”, Cinéma, 135, pp. 23-25.
Alain (1960): Les idées et les âges, en Les passions et la sagesse, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard.
Berenguer, Luis (2004): El mundo de Juan Lobón, Madrid, Caïrel Ediciones, Biblioteca de relatos de caza.
Cabello-Castellet, George, Martí-Olivella, Jaume and Wood, Guy H. (eds. and introds.) (1998): Cine-Lit, III: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction, Corvallis, OR, Oregon State University.
Cervera, Alfons (1997): Maquis, Valencia, Montesinos.
Condominas, Louis (1988): La chasse: et autres essais, Paris, L’Harmattan.
Cortázar, Julio (1998): Los relatos, 4. Ahí y ahora, Madrid, Alianza Editorial.
Cortázar, Julio (1997): Los relatos, 1. Ritos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial.
Delibes, Miguel (1985): Aventuras, venturas y desventuras de un cazador a rabo, Barcelona, Destino.
Cortázar, Julio (2000): Con la escopeta al hombro, Barcelona, Destino, Colección Destinolibro, volumen 250.
Cortázar, Julio (2001): El hereje, Barcelona, Destino.
Cortázar, Julio (2005): Las guerras de nuestros antepasados, Barcelona, Destino, Colección Destinolibro, volumen 196.
Erckmann-Chatrian (1988): Hugues-leloup, en Contes et romans nationaux et populaires, Tome III, Paris, Pauvert Tallander.
Fernández-Santos, E. (2005): “Guillermo Arriaga, el cazador que escribe”, Noticias y rodajes, El País, 2 de diciembre, p. 42.
Genevoix, Maurice (1983): Raboliot, Paris, Bernard Grasset.
Guerreau, Alain (2000): “Les structures de base de la chasse médiévale”, en Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino y Baudouin Van den Abeele (recop.), pp. 25-35.
Hell, Bertrand (1994): Le sang noir. Chasse et mythe du sauvage en Europe, Paris, Flammarion.
Ingrao, Christian (2006): Les chasseurs noirs. La brigade Dirlewanger, Paris, Perrin.
Kristeva, Julia (1994): Le temps sensible, Paris, Gallimard.
Labarca, Eduardo (1994): Butamalón, Madrid, Anaya & Mario Muchnick.
Larraz, Emmanuel (1973): El cine español, Paris, Masson et Cie.
Lemonnier, Camille (1977): Un mâle, Verviers, Marabout.
Llamazares, Julio (2006): Luna de lobos, Barcelona, Seix Barral.
Mañas, Achero: Guión de Cazadores, Sec. 1.- Entrevistas niños. Imágenes animales muertos (www.achero.es/en/Hunters/script_Cazadores.pdf).
Núñez, Florencia (2006): “La constancia de una noble tierra”, El Periódico Extremadura, Suplemento Caza y Pesca, 19 de enero.
Ortega y Gassset, (1945): “La caza solitaria”, en Obras completas (1983), Tomo IX, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, pp. 451-58.
Ortega y Gassset (1942): Prólogo a Conde de Yebes, pp. 15-89.
Paolini, Gilbert y Paolini, Claire J. (eds.) (1999): LA CHISPA’99: Selected Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, Tulane University.
Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino y Baudouin Van den Abeele (recop.) (2000): La chasse au Moyen âge. Société, traités, symboles, Firenze, Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo.
Saura, Carlos y Fons, Angelino (1964): Guión de La caza, Filmoteca Nacional.
Schnapp, Alain (1997): Le chasseur et la cité: chasse et érotique dans la Grèce Ancienne, Paris, Albin Michel.
Serceau, Michel (2001): Étudier le cinéma, Paris, Éditions du Temps.
Vila, Justo (2004): La agonía del búho chico, Badajoz, Del Oeste Ediciones.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2011 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
© CSIC. Manuscripts published in both the printed and online versions of this Journal are the property of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and quoting this source is a requirement for any partial or full reproduction.All contents of this electronic edition, except where otherwise noted, are distributed under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International” (CC BY 4.0) License. You may read here the basic information and the legal text of the license. The indication of the CC BY 4.0 License must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.
Self-archiving in repositories, personal webpages or similar, of any version other than the published by the Editor, is not allowed.
