This film belongs to the season “Comic and cinema. From comic to screen” in which the films where the most emblematic characters of the North American cartoon strip play the leading roles are screened. The comic was born and developed between 1900 and 1950, a period covered by the temporary exhibition which frames the cinema season - “The Emergence of Classics”- . This film of 1942 is perhaps the most remembered production of Tarzan among all those released until today. It was the last production of the MGM on the wild character and the sixth time were the leading roles were played by Johnny Weissmüller and Mauren O’Sullivan.
This film belongs to the cinema series “Comic and cinema. From comic to screen” which screens the films where the most emblematic characters of the North American cartoon strip play the leading roles. The comic was born and developed between 1900 and 1950, a period covered by the temporary exhibition which is the reference framwork of the cinema series — “The Emergence of Classics”— . This film of 1942 is perhaps the most remembered production of Tarzan among all those released until today. It was the last production of the MGM on the wild character and the sixth time that the leading roles were played by Johnny Weissmüller and Mauren O’Sullivan.
The writer and journalist Luz Sánchez-Mellado took part in the last session of the MuVIM’s cinema and debate series “Big Bang Dones” focused on the analysis of the new ways of understanding and living motherhood. This is the last taboo which must be overcome by women, as it seems that every one of them should feel and seem happy and grateful to be a mother, without any right to complaint, dissatisfaction or ambivalence feelings. In this article prepared for the occasion, Luz Sánchez-Mellado confesses that, despite being a mother, she has never felt such thing called maternal instinct and that her experience with motherhood is at least, ambivalent.
We should wonder where women in the History of Art are and where and how they are in today’s cultural life. Because, the truth is that there is an army of dissident muses producing and managing culture and food for thought —sometimes in the dark and sometimes against the light —and whom must be payed attention and given room. They are a sort of “guerrilla girls” of the peaceful and noiseless revolution, they are that encouraging future and present in motion.