Luis Mainar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4880784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Mainar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | Mainar |
| SIGNATURE | MAINAR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3169-5920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Calor de hogar
This article explores the emergence of a cultural tendency in crime film and television that relies on its melodramatic ingredient. This cultural formation illustrates the postgeneric phenomenon that crime film and television have arguably been part of in the past two decades. This tendency is more visible in the realist branch of the genre, particularly in those products that feature representations of women. In these, the experience of crime is…
Realism and authenticity in Chloé Zhao’s The Rider
In the context of world cinema studies, realism has recently been reassessed as an aesthetics based on the status granted to objectivity and the ideal of non-anthropomorphic perspective. In an attempt to broaden that critical view, the article explores how that notion is affected by the cinema whose main goal is to offer viewers the personal vision of its creative personnel (actors, directors, cinematographers, etc.) while adhering to a productio…
Crematorio or a Local Case of a Global Crime Film/Television
This article discusses the miniseries Crematorio (Crematorium, Canal+, 2011) as the convergence point of several social and textual currents that illustrate the condition of contemporary Spanish television as a local industry influenced by global change. These currents include the strategy of Canal+ to expand by creating quality television, the influence of producers that look to the industrial modes of the United States, obvious references to co…
Contemporary Hollywood Crime Film and the New Individualism1
This article focuses on contemporary Hollywood films Silver City (2004), The Constant Gardener (2005) and The Departed (2006) in order to examine the intersection of the cultural discourse of the New Individualism, characterized by the helplessness and anxiety of the subject in the face of social change, with the generic conventions of the crime film. It explores the ways in which such conventions as crosscutting and suspense, the victim-hero of …
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
This paper is an attempt to assess the attitude of a modernist work towards popular culture and the social changes that transformed the United States during the twenties. Its main contention is that modernism's emphasis on epistemology has tended to obscure the conservative stance of many of its creations, apparent in their reaction against the new reconsideration of class and gender brought about by industrialisation and urbanisation. Following …
Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove
This article is an attempt at analysing several aspects of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove from a point of view which includes concepts of both narratology and post-structuralist analysis. I study the level of the fabula and the characters (at the level of the story) in order to prove the existence in the film of a tendency to discard its apparently satiric aim and privilege a logic of spectacle. The contents of the fabula reveal that the film introduc…
Contemporary Hollywood Crime Film and the New Individualism1
This article focuses on contemporary Hollywood films Silver City (2004), The Constant Gardener (2005) and The Departed (2006) in order to examine the intersection of the cultural discourse of the New Individualism, characterized by the helplessness and anxiety of the subject in the face of social change, with the generic conventions of the crime film. It explores the ways in which such conventions as crosscutting and suspense, the victim-hero of …
Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove
This article is an attempt at analysing several aspects of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove from a point of view which includes concepts of both narratology and post-structuralist analysis. I study the level of the fabula and the characters (at the level of the story) in order to prove the existence in the film of a tendency to discard its apparently satiric aim and privilege a logic of spectacle. The contents of the fabula reveal that the film introduc…
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
This paper is an attempt to assess the attitude of a modernist work towards popular culture and the social changes that transformed the United States during the twenties. Its main contention is that modernism's emphasis on epistemology has tended to obscure the conservative stance of many of its creations, apparent in their reaction against the new reconsideration of class and gender brought about by industrialisation and urbanisation. Following …
Contemporary Hollywood Crime Film and the New Individualism1
This article focuses on contemporary Hollywood films Silver City (2004), The Constant Gardener (2005) and The Departed (2006) in order to examine the intersection of the cultural discourse of the New Individualism, characterized by the helplessness and anxiety of the subject in the face of social change, with the generic conventions of the crime film. It explores the ways in which such conventions as crosscutting and suspense, the victim-hero of …
Crematorio or a Local Case of a Global Crime Film/Television
This article discusses the miniseries Crematorio (Crematorium, Canal+, 2011) as the convergence point of several social and textual currents that illustrate the condition of contemporary Spanish television as a local industry influenced by global change. These currents include the strategy of Canal+ to expand by creating quality television, the influence of producers that look to the industrial modes of the United States, obvious references to co…
Realism and authenticity in Chloé Zhao’s The Rider
In the context of world cinema studies, realism has recently been reassessed as an aesthetics based on the status granted to objectivity and the ideal of non-anthropomorphic perspective. In an attempt to broaden that critical view, the article explores how that notion is affected by the cinema whose main goal is to offer viewers the personal vision of its creative personnel (actors, directors, cinematographers, etc.) while adhering to a productio…
Calor de hogar
This article explores the emergence of a cultural tendency in crime film and television that relies on its melodramatic ingredient. This cultural formation illustrates the postgeneric phenomenon that crime film and television have arguably been part of in the past two decades. This tendency is more visible in the realist branch of the genre, particularly in those products that feature representations of women. In these, the experience of crime is…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works)