Presentation Title
P-07 Creative writing in the Spanish classroom with Pablo Berger's Blancanieves
Presenter Status
Associate Professor, International Languages and Global Studies
Preferred Session
Poster Session
Start Date
22-10-2021 2:00 PM
End Date
22-10-2021 3:00 PM
Presentation Abstract
The theses of Vladimir Propp already demonstrated that the subversion of the essence of stories could give them, inexhaustibly, new and surprising meanings. Along these lines, the film "Blancanieves" by Pablo Berger, based on a complete Spaniard reformulation of the classic tale, offers an interesting paradigm of literary creation for the language teacher. This dark and expressionist version of the traditional tale, at the service of a social satire of the Spain of bullfighting, and redefining the role of women, etc., seems to us to be exportable and exploitable as an example of creativity for countless exercises of rewriting stories in the language class.
P-07 Creative writing in the Spanish classroom with Pablo Berger's Blancanieves
The theses of Vladimir Propp already demonstrated that the subversion of the essence of stories could give them, inexhaustibly, new and surprising meanings. Along these lines, the film "Blancanieves" by Pablo Berger, based on a complete Spaniard reformulation of the classic tale, offers an interesting paradigm of literary creation for the language teacher. This dark and expressionist version of the traditional tale, at the service of a social satire of the Spain of bullfighting, and redefining the role of women, etc., seems to us to be exportable and exploitable as an example of creativity for countless exercises of rewriting stories in the language class.