El México rojo: Entropic Humour, Naturalism, and Death in Luis Buñuel's El río y la muerte and Ensayo de un crimen

Ivan Kenny

doi:10.18192/rceh.v46i2.4559

El México rojo: Entropic Humour, Naturalism, and Death in Luis Buñuel's El río y la muerte and Ensayo de un crimen

Ivan Kenny

Spanish

University of Galway

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This article analyzes death, violence, and machismo in two Mexican films by Luis Buñuel, El río y la muerte (1954) and Ensayo de un crimen (1955), starting from a naturalist perspective (Deleuze, 1986) and applying the concept of "entropic" humour (O'Neill, 1990). Despite numerous studies on surrealist humour in Buñuel's films, it is necessary to investigate how his "peculiar" black humour operates, both in his naturalist works and in a Mexican context, "the chosen land of black humour" (Breton, 1941). I contend that both films satirically link violent impulses and stereotypical cultural constructions surrounding death in Mexico.

Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	365-389
Number of pages	25
Journal	Revista Canadiense De Estudios Hispánicos
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v46i2.4559
Publication status	Published - 20 Dec 2024

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Mexico
Naturalism
death
humour

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