Mythical realism in the western: Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven

Authors

  • Mauro Baptista UEPR
  • Guillermo Giucci

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2023.207203

Keywords:

Realism, Myth, Literature, Western

Abstract

 In this article, we coin the concept of “mythical realism” to examine Clint Eastwood’s film Unforgiven (1992) and we make a comparison between Homer’s Odyssey and the western. Supported by studies on mythology, we present the characteristics of mythic realism and analyze the reasons of the trip, the name and the revenge. We consider that the concept of “mythical realism” may raise new questions about the relationship between realism, myth, literature and the western.

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Author Biographies

  • Mauro Baptista, UEPR
    Cineasta, escritor, actor y director teatral. Es doctor en Artes por la Universidad de São Paulo (USP) y profesor de Dirección y de Actuación en el curso de Cine y Audiovisual de la Universidad Estadual do Paraná (UEPR). En cine llevó a cabo el largometraje Jardim Europa y el telefilm A performance, entre otros. En teatro dirigió grandes éxitos como La fiesta de Abigail (Mike Leigh) y La cena (Moira Buffini)).
  • Guillermo Giucci
    Guillermo Giucci (Ph.D, Stanford University, 1987), Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, is the author of Viajantes do maravilhoso: o Novo Mundo (1992); Sem fe, lei ou rei: Brasil 1500-1532 (1993); The cultural life of the automobile. Routes of kinetic modernity (2007); Gilber to Freyre. A cultural biography (with Enrique Rodríguez Larreta, 2007); Land of Fire. The Creation of the End of the World (2014); The collective journey Tram and bus culture in South America (with Tomás Errázuriz, 2018).
    He coordinated the critical edition of Gilberto Freyre, Casa-grande & senzala (Paris: Archives, 2002).
    He was a visiting professor at Albert-Ludwigs, Texas, Los Angeles, and Stanford Universities.
    He received Guggenheim and Tinker fellowships.
    He currently lives in Uruguay and is developing a research project on "entheogenic" travelers in Mexico between 1936 and 1963. In parallel, he is investigating the history of representations of what it means to be human.

     

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Referencias audiovisuales

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Published

2024-03-18

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Vol. 50 (2023)

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Baptista, M., & Giucci, G. (2024). Mythical realism in the western: Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven. Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 50, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2023.207203