Reinterpretations of Carmen and Don Juan in Transnational Cinema in English Funded by Spain, 2005–2019
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Spain invested more than eleven million euros in funding for twenty feature fiction films in English which were co-produced with the United Kingdom and/or the United States between 2005 and 2019 and included at least one Spanish actress or actor in their casts or one scene filmed in Spain. In these productions, the construction of characters played by Spaniards shared a series of specific physical and psychological characteristics, which seem to frequently refer to the archetypes of the femme fatale and the casanova through their nationally stereotyped personifications in the myths of Mérimée's Carmen and Zorilla's Don Juan. Moreover, it seems clear that both UK and US viewers recognize this stereotypical representation of the Spanish identity in reviews published openly on IMDB.com and Amazon about these twenty films and even make direct mentions to specific stereotypes on the one hand and generalizations applicable to the Spanish population as a whole on the other. The results of this work point out the apparent (hyper)sexualization to which both Spanish actresses and actors seem to be relegated in this type of international co-productions made in English.
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