The battle for re-imagining Catalonia: cinematic populism, myth-making, and Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018)

In this article, we argue that the TV series event with the highest audience in recent Catalan history, La catedral del mar /Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018), is an example of commercial cinematic populism. Cathedral of the Sea is built on formal elements of the classic Hollywood style (for...

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Autores: Ungureanu, Camil, Pintor Iranzo, Ivan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
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Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Sèries televisives
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spelling The battle for re-imagining Catalonia: cinematic populism, myth-making, and Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018)Ungureanu, CamilPintor Iranzo, IvanSèries televisivesIn this article, we argue that the TV series event with the highest audience in recent Catalan history, La catedral del mar /Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018), is an example of commercial cinematic populism. Cathedral of the Sea is built on formal elements of the classic Hollywood style (for example, continuous editing, linear narrative, lack of moral ambiguity), and a series of substantive dichotomies (people/ elite, the popular hero/ the villain, the good/ the bad) and myths (the savior, the unity of the people). In analyzing their significance, we distinguish three hermeneutic layers, the populist, the general-mythical, and the Catalan historical context, which, in combination, constitute the cinematic narrative. Therein the central hero of Cathedral of the Sea, Arnau Estanyol, personifies the myth of the commoner who, by accumulating a whole range of virtues and social roles, synecdochically stands for the triumphant emergence of the modern Catalan people. This narrative is, we maintain, traversed by a tension between the populist call for emancipation, incarnated by Arnau, and the phantasmal self-gratification based on the depiction of a world devoid of complexity.Liverpool University Press202220222021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/53379http://doi.org/10.3828/catr.35.4reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésCatalan review. 2021;35(1):69-88.© Liverpool University Pressinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/533792026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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Ungureanu, Camil
Sèries televisives
title_short The battle for re-imagining Catalonia: cinematic populism, myth-making, and Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018)
title_full The battle for re-imagining Catalonia: cinematic populism, myth-making, and Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018)
title_fullStr The battle for re-imagining Catalonia: cinematic populism, myth-making, and Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018)
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Pintor Iranzo, Ivan
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description In this article, we argue that the TV series event with the highest audience in recent Catalan history, La catedral del mar /Cathedral of the Sea (Jordi Frades, 2018), is an example of commercial cinematic populism. Cathedral of the Sea is built on formal elements of the classic Hollywood style (for example, continuous editing, linear narrative, lack of moral ambiguity), and a series of substantive dichotomies (people/ elite, the popular hero/ the villain, the good/ the bad) and myths (the savior, the unity of the people). In analyzing their significance, we distinguish three hermeneutic layers, the populist, the general-mythical, and the Catalan historical context, which, in combination, constitute the cinematic narrative. Therein the central hero of Cathedral of the Sea, Arnau Estanyol, personifies the myth of the commoner who, by accumulating a whole range of virtues and social roles, synecdochically stands for the triumphant emergence of the modern Catalan people. This narrative is, we maintain, traversed by a tension between the populist call for emancipation, incarnated by Arnau, and the phantasmal self-gratification based on the depiction of a world devoid of complexity.
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