The objective of this thesis is to attempt a semiotic- psychoanalytic reading of the cinema
of Bunuel. For this proposal we have selected three films of the director, An Andalusian dog,
Land without bread and The obscure object of desire. The criteria that has led to this particular
selection of films takes into account a wide range of variables to be contrasted to the
psychoanalytical determinants that, we propose, play a decisive role in the form and content of
the productions.
The different variables present in these films are: genre (Surrealist, documentary and
traditional narratives), thematics (surrealistic, erotic and socio-etnographic study), time of
creativity (early adulthood, senility) and socio-cultural conditions of production (Spain, France).
Our intended psychoanalytic study focuses on the creator's unconscious motivations that
regulate, in a rather compulsive way, the poetics of love or life indistinctively present in all these
cinematic creations.
In order to reach to this interpretative stance, we will follow the different methodological
steps of a semiotic reading of the texts that will discern their cinematographically denotative and
connotative devises and contents.
This way of illuminating art through psychoanalysis is reflected on the Freudian idea that
creativity constitutes one of the mysterious human manifestations in which the instincts channel
their conflicts in a socially disguised way, in order to pursue the desired gratification.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11585 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Park, Mi Soo |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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