El Cid canalla. Recepción del mito cidiano en el videoclip de Romance (Amazon Prime Video)

Abstract

Since the man and the myth entwined in the Middle Ages, the figure of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid Campeador, has survived for centuries by adapting itself to the taste and mentality of the public of each era. The latest manifestation of this evolution is in the Romance music video, which served to promote El Cid series (Amazon Prime Video). This article develops an interdiscursive analysis between this audiovisual work and the medieval written sources where it finds the characters, themes and topics of the Cidian tradition which it adapts to create a plot closer to Tarantino’s films than to Anthony Mann’s Cid.