¿Y comieron perdices?Amores adúlteros vs. Comedia Romántica

  1. Castells Molina, Isabel
Zeitschrift:
Revista Latente: Revista de Historia y Estética del Audiovisual

ISSN: 1697-459X

Datum der Publikation: 2005

Nummer: 3

Seiten: 161-178

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Revista Latente: Revista de Historia y Estética del Audiovisual

Zusammenfassung

This paper tries to confront some adoulterous love stories to those which take place in «romantic comedies». This confrontation allows us to show how «happy endings» are more a commercial product than an artistic manifestation, by placing the adoulterous stories in a legendary tradition from the Middle Age to present time. This paper also analyzes the variations in the determining factors (moral, aesthetic) behind the development of this old plot in different films