On Magic Realism in Film
@article{Jameson1986OnMR, title={On Magic Realism in Film}, author={Fredric Jameson}, journal={Critical Inquiry}, year={1986}, volume={12}, pages={301 - 325} }
The concept of "magic realism" raises many problems, both theoretical and historical. I first encountered it in the context of American painting in the mid-1950s; at about the same time, Angel Flores published an influential article (in English) in which the term was applied to the work of Borges;' but Alejo Carpentier's conception of the real maravilloso at once seemed to offer a related or alternative conception, while his own work and that of Miguel Angel Asturias seemed to demand an…
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