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Picturing the beggars in Luis Buñuel's Viridiana: a perverse appropriation of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla

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Abstract

This article looks at the sequence in which Enedina (Lola Gaos), one of the female beggars, pretends to photograph the other beggars at the dining table in Luis Buñuel's 1961 film Viridiana. Detailed analysis of this kind allows us to understand to what extent Buñuel's film aligns itself with what has been frequently identified as patriarchal Surrealist experimentation with parodic rewriting. Inversely, this analysis also allows us to ask to what extent Viridiana may be appropriated by current sexually dissident modes of rereading and rewriting cultural texts. I consider the different cinematic elements used by Buñuel to represent this parodic image and how Buñuel transforms the conventional function of objects so that they fulfil a different material and symbolic function.

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Author(s): Gutiérrez-Albilla JD

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Romance Studies

Year: 2005

Volume: 5

Issue: 2

Pages: 59-73

ISSN (print): 1473-3536

ISSN (electronic): 1752-2331

Publisher: Berghahn Books Ltd

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/147335305780960397

DOI: 10.3167/147335305780960397

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