Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996) es una película sobre la etnicidad y sobre el peso del pasado tratado aquí de manera reflexiva. Es un tema inevitablemente presente en las películas norteamericanas (o en muchas de ellas) pero a menudo sólo como parte del trasfondo, o evitado en el desarrollo de la historia principal. Aquí está en el centro —y los dos temas son en realidad el mismo: cómo las relaciones entre comunidades étnicas en el presente están marcadas y condicionadas por lo que han sido sus relaciones (de opresión, de confrontación) en el pasado.

Con la Historia a cuestas: Lone Star, de John Sayles

Date Written: 2010

Keywords: Ethnicity, Identity politics, Film studies, Films, John Sayles, Texas, Border, Multiculturalism

Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Con la Historia a cuestas: Lone Star, de John Sayles (Carrying the Burden of History: John Sayles's Lone Star) (2010). Ibercampus (Dec. 28, 2020), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3756848

Reference Info: Ibercampus (Dec. 28, 2020)

Date posted: March 16, 2021

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3756848

Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.

English abstract: Carrying the Burden of History: John Sayles's Lone Star

Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996) is a film on ethnicity and on the weight of the past, which is dealt with here in a reflexive mode. It is a subject which is inevitably present in many American films, but as a rule merely as part of the background, and usually avoided in the unfolding of the main storyline. Here it is at the centre, and both subjects are really the same: the way in which the relationships between ethnic communities in the present are marked and conditioned by the history of their relations (of oppression or confrontation) in the past.

SSRN eJournal Classifications	Message
Conflict Studies eJournals Conflict Studies: Intra-State Conflict eJournal - CMBO PSN: Ethnic/Religious Conflict (Topic) - CMBO	Added to eLibrary

PSN Subject Matter eJournals Race & Social Inequity eJournal - CMBO	Added to eLibrary
Political Behavior eJournals Political Behavior: Race, Ethnicity & Identity Politics eJournal - CMBO PSN: Politics of Ethnicity (Topic) - CMBO	Added to eLibrary
ArtsRN Subject Matter eJournals Film, Media & TV Studies eJournal - CMBO ArtsRN: Film Criticism & Theory (Topic) - CMBO	Classification Under Review