Elena Jordi y el Mito de Thais

Mele Ballesteros, Irene

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Elena Jordi y el Mito de Thais

dc.contributor.advisor	Barbara Zecchi
dc.contributor.author	Mele Ballesteros, Irene
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
dc.date	2023-09-23T08:16:44.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T20:37:27Z
dc.date.available	2014-02-26T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued	2013-01-01
dc.date.submitted	September
dc.description.abstract	This thesis studies the impact of the work of Elena Jordi during the first Spanish avant-garde period (1890-1920) and the relationship between the myth of Thaïs and her homonymous film released in 1918. Here I track the trajectory of her career from its beginnings to culmination, when she directed Thaïs while leading an innovative vaudeville theatre company. The first chapter discusses the activity of Jordi as a Catalan actress, and woman entrepreneur in vaudeville. It analyzes the effect of the introduction of foreign vaudevilles on the reception of her work by critics through the theorization of Herni Gidel´s on vaudeville as genre. The second chapter reviews the cinematographic work of Jordi and situates it within the context of Catalan cinema´s early development as Spain´s first woman film director. After reflecting about the possible cultural influences that informed Jordi’s Thaïs, I explore the literary origins of the Legend of the Saint, an hagiography of Greek origins, and review relevant literary, operatic, and cinematic productions that incorporated this myth during the early Spanish avant-garde period. My conclusion highlights the original and similar features of Elena Jordi and Thaïs in their respective fields and different manifestations, simultaneously placing Jordi’s Thaïs in dialogue with the myth´s resurrection and its impact on the avant-garde feminist milieu. This demonstrates the formative influence of both Jordi as a pioneering artist and the enduring cultural influence of the myth of Thais on twentieth-century cultural production.
dc.description.degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7275/4533843
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/44577
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2294&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	Elena Jordi
dc.subject	Women’s cinema
dc.subject	Catalan cinema
dc.subject	vaudeville theatre
dc.subject	avant-garde cinema
dc.subject	Myth of Thais
dc.subject	Other Film and Media Studies
dc.subject	Other Theatre and Performance Studies
dc.subject	Spanish Literature
dc.subject	Women's Studies
dc.title	Elena Jordi y el Mito de Thais
dc.type	campus
dc.type	article
dc.type	thesis
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digcom.date.embargo	2014-02-26T00:00:00-08:00
digcom.identifier	theses/1138
digcom.identifier.contextkey	4533843
digcom.identifier.submissionpath	theses/1138
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