Storytelling around the Globe

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.01.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale
  2. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-)
  3. Isabel Allende (1942-)
  4. Laura Esquivel (1950-)
  5. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986)
  6. Objectives
  7. Strategies
  8. Sample Lesson Plans
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Other Resources
  12. Filmography
  13. Appendix 1

Lo “real maravilloso” y el cine

Maria Cardalliaguet

Published September 2009

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

-Alonso, Ana. Literatura y cine: la relación entre la palabra y la imagen. Diputación Provincial de Cáceres: Cáceres, 1997. Explores the complex relationship between literature and film.

-Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film. Methuen: London, 1985. Comprehensive study of how movies use fundamental principles of narrative representation and story telling patterns to build their fictional narratives.

-Casetti, Francesco and Di Chio, Federico. Cómo analizar un film. Paidós: Barcelona, 1994. About film analysis.

-Cohen, Keith. Film and Fiction: the dynamics of exchange. Yale University Press: New Haven, 1979. About the influence of cinematic expression on modern fiction.

-Corrigan, Timothy and White, Patricia. The Film Experience: An Introduction. Bedford/St. Martin's: Boston, 2004. Comprehensive text on film concepts and techniques.

-Esquivel, Laura. Como agua para chocolate. Grijalbo Mondadori: Barcelona, 1990. Beautiful graphic design and amazing illustrations and pictures.

-García Márquez, Gabriel. Cómo se cuenta in cuento. Taller de Guión de Gabriel García Márquez. Voluntad Interés General: Santafé de Bogotá, 1995.

-García Márquez, Gabriel. "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes." Editorial Norma S.A.: Santafé de Bogotá, 1999. García Márquez' short story with many beautiful illustrations.

-Jameson, Frederic. "On Magic Realism in Film", in: Critical Inquiry, Volume 12, Number 2, Winter. Useful article about adaptations of Magic Realism in cinema.

-Lindstrom, Naomi. Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1994. History and criticism.

-Mellen, Joan. Literary Topics: Magic Realism. Gale Study Guides to Great Literature. Gale Group: Farmington Hills, 2000. Informative, extremely detailed and useful guide of magical realism in literature.

-Pérez Murillo, María Dolores and Fernández Fernández, David (coord.) La memoria filmada: América Latina a través de su cine. IEPALA, Colección Problemas Internacionales: Cádiz, 2002. Historical themes in Latin America through its films. Contains a chaper on Magical Realism.

-Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo. José Carlos González Boixo (ed.). Cátedra- Letras Hispánicas: Madrid, 2002. Juan Rulfo's text with an extremely helpful introduction.

-Stam, Robert. "Beyond Fidelity: the Dialogic of Adaptation" in Naremore (ed.). Film Adaptation. The Athlone Press: London, 2001.

-Zamora, Lois Parkinson & Wendy B. Faris (Eds.). Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Durham & Londong: Duke University Press, 2003. Critical anthology on Magical Realism, it offers a broad range of critical perspectives and a more global view of the literal movement.

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