Cuentos crueles. La repres(entac)ión de alteridad en el nuevo cine de Carlos Saura

Abstract

The conflict between the “Propio hispano” and the “Otro extranjero” is one of the central themes in the early films of Spanish film director Carlos Saura. The article examines the role of the actress Geraldine Chaplin, used by Saura in Ana y los lobos and Mamá cumple cien años to represent dimensions of foreignness that confront her to the spheres of power of “their own” Spanish society. Linked to the question of the female, cultural and also cinematografic alterity, the question of the spacial representation of “own” and “other” will also be examined.