Between cinema and literature: Santa María del circo of David Toscana, and Sawdaust and Tinsel of Ingmar Bergman

Abstract

The relationship between cinema and literature has points of clear convergence several others where they contrast. Besides the fact that both disciplines possess a desire for narrativity, another way in which they can be linked is the intertextual relationship that they sustain through the events and phenomena that essay to reformulate a reality that they present to us through their discourse. The aesthetic symbol of the film is built thanks to the circus / theater duo, which allows us to establish the intertextual relationship with the novel, since both propose dichotomous relationships to represent the circus / society counterpoint, in the case of the novel, and the nomadic / established in Bergman's film.