Shame (2011) de Steve McQueen. El cine en segundo grado: la hipertextualidad. (Spanish)

Shame (2011) by Steve McQueen. Cinema in the second degree: Hypertextuality. (English)

The aim of this paper is to suggest the existence of a transtextual relationship of hypertextuality between Shame (2011), a film by the British director Steve McQueen, and American Psycho (2000) by Mary Harron (on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis [1991]). Firstly, this thesis is supported both by the similarity of the plots and the filmmaking elements, as well as by the artistic intention of their directors. In a subsequent second part of this essay, another series of intertextual allusions from different sources in McQueen’s film will be identified and analysed. As a result, the film becomes a meaningful transtextual palimpsest which provides its own meaning from the combination of meanings of its underlying texts. Paraphrasing Gérard Genette’s words, the French literary theorist whose methodology has been used in the present analysis, Steve McQueen’s Shame is a good example of “cinema in the second degree”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer la existencia de una relación transtextual de hipertextualidad entre Shame (2011), película dirigida por el director británico Steve McQueen, y American Psycho de Mary Harron (2000), adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Bret Easton Ellis (1991). El fundamento de esta hipótesis descansa tanto en la similitud de los respectivos argumentos y de los recursos cinematográficos (estructurales, transtextuales y retóricos) empleados en las dos películas, como en la intención artística de los cineastas. En un trabajo subsiguiente, se identificará y analizará una serie de citas intertextuales de diferente procedencia también presentes en el filme de McQueen. La superposición de diferentes discursos convierte a Shame en un rico palimpsesto transtextual que proyecta su propio significado a partir de la suma de las significaciones de sus textos subyacentes. Parafraseando la fórmula del semiólogo literario francés Gérard Genette, cuya metodología ha servido de base para el análisis, Shame de Steve McQueen resulta un buen testimonio de “cine en segundo grado”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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