Las horas del día, de Jaime Rosales: Un psycho-thriller made in Spain
| Title in English | Jaime Rosales’ Las horas del día: a Psycho-thriller Made in Spain |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Romanistica, AFPUO |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Psycho-thriller - Author film – Hyperrealism - Globalization |
| Description | This article examines Jaime Rosales’ film Las horas del día (2003). The analysis is twofold: on the one hand the author reads the text internally (internal reading), on the other hand this reading is put in relation with the development of the film industry and market at a global level, i. e., with the globalization (ideological, political and economic) of cinema. Las horas del día is not a psycho-thriller but it contains important elements of the genre. It can be considered a hybrid or postmodern product, resulting from the director’s attempt to create an auteur film with elements from thriller and horror movies (precisely a serial killer film), as USA popular films. The result is ambiguous. The author of this article points out the formal and ideological tensions in the film and shows the similarities with analogous films which appear in the market around the same time. |