Transnational Identities in Galician Documentary Film: Alberte Pagán's Bs. As. and Xurxo Chirro's Vikingland
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What is Galician cinema? Should any film set in Galicia be considered as Galician or should this label be restricted to those films spoken in Galician and shot by local filmmakers? In order to bridge the economic constrains that lie behind this dichotomy, many young directors have embraced digital filmmaking and moved towards the non-fiction field, producing a set of works that address the Galician Diaspora from a clearly subjective perspective. Identity has thus become one of the main topics of films such as 'Bs. As.' (Alberte Pagán, 2006), 'Vikingland' (Xurxo Chirro, 2011) or 'Pettring' (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2013). They all put the migratory phenomenon into a transnational context in both thematic and formal terms. The following analysis of their mise-en-scène strategies aims to explain the way these filmmakers have set a new pattern for Galician cinema in which the global helps to depict the local.
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Este capítulo é un produto do proxecto de investigación estatal 'Vistas locales de un cine global: diálogo textual y cultural entre los cines
estadounidense, británico y español' (FFI2013– 40769–P) do Ministerio de Economía e Competitividade. Está incluido no volume colectivo 'Global Genres/Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema', publicado pola editorial Bloomsbury, que ocupaba en 2022 a posición 39 do ranking xeral de editoriais estranxeiras do SPI cunha valoración ICEE de 55 puntos. Ademais, segundo cifras de Google Scholar, foi citado cando menos noutros 2 textos académicos.
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Villarmea Álvarez, I. 2016. Transnational Identities in Galician Documentary Film: Alberte Pagán's Bs. As. and Xurxo Chirro's Vikingland. En Oliete-Aldea, E.; Oria, B. & Tarancón, J. (eds.), Global Genres/Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema (pp. 231 - 245). Bloomsbury Academic.