From Epic Cinema to Social Cinema: the Metafilmic Universe in Icíar Bollaín’s También la lluvia (2010) Authors Katarzyna Paszkiewicz Centre Dona i Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: cinema about colonization, realism in film, genres, women’s cinema Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze Icíar Bollaín’s También la lluvia, with a particular emphasis on the questioning of two film genres that belong to the realist style of significance: epic cinema and social cinema. On one hand, there is a critical use of conventional film narratives about colonization; on the other hand, the film offers a reflection on social cinema as a tool of political change. One of the interpretive keys to examining También la lluvia is María, a secondary character overshadowed by male protagonists, who shoots a documentary about the filming and who will ultimately shift her gaze toward the “Guerra del Agua”. How Bollaín visualizes the gaze of the “ideal observer”, while simultaneously exploring the violence of the cinematographic gaze and the moral limits of artistic creation will be the main aspects explored in this article. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2012-10-30 Issue No. 18 (2012): Desorden y transgresión en el mundo antiguo Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
