Alegoría y símbolo en el cine barroco y moderno. Estrategias retóricas, amplificación de sentido

Abstract Rhetorical strategies, amplification of meaning The scope of this paper is to show how allegory and symbol, in the framework of the baroque and modern cinema, are not ornamental mechanisms, but a form of semantic invention capable of questioning the grammaticalization of the cinematographic language. We don’t intend to make a historiographic analysis of a certain period of the cinema, but to show how these figures are capable of producing meaning, without denying their functional role, thanks to their poetic use. Through a qualitative case study (derived from a research on film rhet...