THE BATTLE FOR RE-IMAGINING CATALONIA: CINEMATIC POPULISM, MYTH-MAKING, AND CATHEDRAL OF THE SEA (JORDI FRADES, 2018)

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Catalan Review Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.3828/catr.35.4

C. Ungureanu, Iván Pintor

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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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重新想象加泰罗尼亚的战斗:电影民粹主义、神话制造和海上大教堂(jordi贸易，2018)

在本文中，我们认为近期加泰罗尼亚历史上收视率最高的电视剧《海洋大教堂》(Jordi Frades, 2018)是商业电影民粹主义的一个例子。《大海大教堂》是建立在经典好莱坞风格的形式元素(例如，连续编辑，线性叙事，缺乏道德歧义)，以及一系列实质性的二分法(人民/精英，大众英雄/恶棍，好人/坏人)和神话(救世主，人民的团结)之上的。在分析它们的意义时，我们区分了三个解释学层面，即平民主义、一般神话和加泰罗尼亚历史背景，它们结合起来构成了电影叙事。其中，《大海大教堂》的主人公阿瑙·埃斯坦约尔(Arnau Estanyol)是平民神话的化身，他通过积累一系列美德和社会角色，隐喻地代表了现代加泰罗尼亚人的胜利崛起。我们认为，这种叙事是由一种紧张关系贯穿的，一种是以阿瑙为代表的要求解放的平民主义呼声，另一种是基于对一个没有复杂性的世界的描绘而产生的虚幻的自我满足。

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