Guillermo Arriaga, um autor midiático: as fronteiras entre cinema e literatura na pós-modernidade

Abstract

Postmodernity is characterized by the dissolution of boundaries, whether spatial, cultural, social or artistic. In artistic field, it is perceived a significant mutual influence between cinema and literature, to the extent that the aesthetics, styles and resources are passable between these two arts, to the point of some novels have film language characteristics and cinema has a narrative very close to the literary. On the other hand, postmodernity is also characterized by a large growth of filmic and literary productions to the masse, for an audience whose interest is entertainment, not discussion, criticism or reflection. In this sense, there are several authors who will concentrate themselves on producing their art in a way that reaches a bigger amount of people and public, which inevitably brings their works closer to the market ones or converts them into a work of market. Therefore, the present study aims at analyzing some of the artistic productions of the novelist, cinema director and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, whose work goes through cinema and literature, but joining them from a contemporary realistic aesthetics, which makes his works for the masse public, being characterized, as defined by Professor Vera de Figueiredo (2010), as a mediatic author