Bibliographic notes by Gouiran, Emilio

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Mourning the Self: Treatment of the Unrepresentable Dimension of the Reality of Death in Cinema by Benhaim, Michèle, Broda, Vladimir

“…Indeed, films ofgreat aesthetics deal with the apocalypse and are at the origin of contemporary philosophical issues. What do these directors want to show when theylook at the painful question of the end, of death, of the irreversibility of time? …”
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Álex de la Iglesia and the scenes of heights: Symbolism of space from the narrative by Jiménez González, Marcos

“…The analysis will focus on the films that show this resource in the final part (in the climax), emphasizing its metaphorical character, which connects with a philosophical reading of heights as a filmic space. This connotation is rooted in the origins of western culture, in the thought of Plato, Aristotle and the Judeo-Christian tradition which, being very present in thought, also survives in literary and cinematographic narrative.…”
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