The journey into the text: reading Rulfo in Carlos Reygadas's 2002 feature film Japon.(Critical essay) From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Rowlandson, William | COPYRIGHT 2006 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This article analyses the presence of Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Paramo in Carlos Reygadas's film Japon. While Pedro Paramo becomes allegorical of the nature of reading, Japon employs equivalent narrative devices to lead the spectator into a reassessment of the nature of film spectatorship. As Rulfo's work questions the division between character and reader, so Japon questions the boundary between actor, character, and spectator. The article firstly analyses points of reference betwe...

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