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Coloniality and the Trappings of Modernity in Viridiana and The Hand in the Trap
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 1, Fall 2011
- pp. 96-114
- 10.1353/cj.2011.0067
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The transatlantic co-productions Viridiana and The Hand in the Trap, which swept the top awards at Cannes in 1961, are remarkably similar in their juxtaposition of Catholic repression and modern mores. Yet the films differ dramatically in their treatment of colonial legacies—legacies that shaped the divergent reception of their directors, Luis Buñuel and Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, among Eurocentric arbiters of cultural modernity.
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