María, from Grau, in the Colombian cinematic context: “María está rara”

Abstract

In the history of film adaptations of the novel María (Isaacs, 1867), to experimental and iconoclastic film María (Grau, 1966) it is identified as belonging to the uncanonical trend or subversion and background to the position presented in the Colombian culture field. The article continues with a detailed analysis of the characteristics of narratives and stylistics to determine the semantic level in which it operates its proposal to adjust and, from print and oral records related to the film, their conditions of production, circulation and reception are studied. This analysis shows how a uncanonical position before the novel is built from multiple levels of meaning, determining their place in literary and film fields in Colombia in the 1960s and presenting new clues to understanding the place of the experimental theater in the history of Colombian cinema.