The passion of Antonio Delgado: Religious iconography in the Spanish TV mini-series Padre Coraje/Father Courage
2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1386/sdf.4.3.283_1
ISSN1750-3299
Autores Tópico(s)Spanish Culture and Identity
ResumoABSTRACTThe Spanish TV mini-series Padre Coraje (2001) is based on the story of Francisco Holgado (aka ‘Padre Coraje’), a bank clerk who infiltrated the criminal underworld of the city of Jerez in Andalucia in the hope of unmasking his son's murderer. Pre-production/production of the series were extensively covered by the newspaper El Mundo, coverage emphasizing notions of moral duty and emotional compromise with both subject and real protagonists. An emotive discourse is also present in interviews with the actors and with director Benito Zambrano. Here a third idea surfaces: the event as distinctively Andalusian story. Padre Coraje also bears the trace of its Andalusian provenance at the level of characterization, the characters of Padre Coraje and his family being constructed as living replicas of images of the Virgin and Jesus Christ (as represented in the tradition of Andalusian Semana Santa—or Easter Parades). This emotive portrayal is balanced with a more socio-realist approach to the representation...
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