Un 'freak' en el parque de atracciones: "Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley"

• Autores: Meritxell Esquirol Salom, Josep Lluis Fece Gómez
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 39, 2001, págs. 26-39
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • A Freak at the Fair: Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley
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  • Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley is a product of contemporary cultural industries; therefore, it should not be analyzed from dominant practices in film studies. It is not our intention to analyze the film from merely an aesthetic point of view, but from the role that it plays in the audience’s everyday life and its links with other forms of entertainment. Thus, unlike dominant critical discourse, we envisage its intertextual dimension regarding literary filmic texts as well as other texts generated by the leisure industry. Finally, we are interested in the relationship abstract between the film and its legitimizing discourse of spanishness.