Kiss of the Spider Woman & Name of the Rose
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Intertextuality is defined as a by-produce of the semiotic approach to film, and it questions realism by emphasizing the coded and constructed nature of the film artifact. Art is thus seen as responding not to reality but to other discourses. Many films are overtly self-referential, associating their plots with the act of filmmaking itself. Often such associations have a wider significance and relate the work of art to the broader question of what constitutes art and how art is expressed. The film may also be associated with and in part explained by reference to other discourses, such as politics, law, social issues, and so on. Two such movies which reflect on art and politics and the juncture between the two are Kiss of the Spider Woman (Babenco, 1985) and The Name of the Rose (Annaud, 1986). Both films began as novels and so connect with other films produced on that basis and connect in a broader sense with the forms and purposes of the novel. In the film of Manuel Puig's novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, two men share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. One is Molina, a homosexual sentenced to eight years in prison for the corruption of minors, and the other is Valent?n, a young Marxist imprisoned for revolutionary activities. Molina tries to pass the time by telling the younger man about films he has seen, recreating the stories with words. It is in the course of these retellings of the different films that the viewer gets to know these characters and sees how they
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society that looks down on such people. As he interacts with Valent?n, however, he begins to take the side of the young man. After Valent?n is tortured, he nurtures him even more directly and reveals that he has been commissioned to seek answers about the revolutionary group but that he has not given any information to the other side and will not do so. Molina is truly a man who has not been able to fit into society in any meaningful way. He reveals to Valent?n in fact that he is not even drawn especially to his homosexual friends, for he seeks a real man rather than another homosexual and could not fall in love with a homosexual. Even as a revolutionary dedicated to overthrowing society, Valent?n is more a member of that society than is Molina.
The contrast between the two men suggests something about art and our response to art, showing that the same artifact can have very different effects for different viewers. A film can be both an emotional exercise and an intellectual challenge at one and the same time, and every image has elements addressing both aspects of the experience of art.
The reality of these two men is evoked for the viewer through specific symbols associated with different genres and dramatic recreati
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Approximate Word count = 4284
Approximate Pages = 17 (250 words per page)
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