THE SHATTERED

 SCREEN

 MYTH AND DEMYTHIFICATION

 IN THE ART OF

 CARLOS FUENTES

 AND

 BILLY WILDER

by

LANIN A.

GYURKO

Cover Design by Carlos Mal Pacheco and Rosana Sánchez ©

ISBN: 1-931948-81-X

2009

         This fundamental book examines the paradoxical process of myth-making and its counterpart, demythification, in the complex and fascinating art of the world renowned dramatist and novelist Carlos Fuentes, and that of Billy Wilder, the Academy Award winning director of films like Sunset Boulevard, Fedora, Stalag 17, Lost Weekend, The Apartment, and Some Like it Hot. The extensive influence of Wilder's film noir masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard, on the dramatic art of Carlos Fuentes, in particular his compelling drama, Orquídeas a la luz de la luna (Orchids in the Moonlight), that stunningly fuses Mexican and Hollywood cinema, with a brilliant evocation of two of the greatest actresses of the Mexican screen, Dolores del Rio and Maria Felix, is traced.

          The Shattered Screen will be essential to film lovers, scholars of Latin American literature and culture, and to everyone who seeks to comprehend and appreciate how the powerful cinematic image is harnessed by the literary artist, who seeks not to compete with the filmic media but to incorporate its dynamism and its energy and wonder in order to vivify the literary work.

 Dr. LANIN A. GYURKO

is Professor of Latin American Literature and Film Studies at the University of Arizona, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Harvard University.  

He has authored several books:

Studies in Honor of Enrique Anderson Imbert (Madrid:  Juan de la Cuesta, 2003); Studies in Honor of Denah Lida (Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 2005); and Lifting the Obsidian Mask: The Artistic Vision of Carlos Fuentes (Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 2007). 

In 2002, Dr. Lanin A. Gyurko was given the Orden de los Descubridores Award by Sigma Delta Pi, La Sociedad Nacional Hispánica.

Dr. Lanin A. Gyurko recently authored with University Press of the South, Magic Lens. The Transformation of the Visual Arts in the Narrative World of Carlos Fuentes (2010).

Lanin A. Gyurko

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