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PYGMALION (1938): UN FILME RELACIONADO INDIRECTAMENTE CON LA MEDICINA.

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Title: PYGMALION (1938): UN FILME RELACIONADO INDIRECTAMENTE CON LA MEDICINA.
Alternate Title: Pigmalion (1938): a Film Indirectly Related to Medicine.
Authors: D'OTTAVIO-CATTANI, Alberto Enrique1 aedottavio@hotmail.com
Source: Journal of Medicine & Movies / Revista de Medicina y Cine. Mar2024, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p95-101. 7p.
Abstract (English): This paper focuses on the film Pygmalion (1938), indirectly related to Medicine and based on the play by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, inspired in Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses. However, it cannot be ruled out that, among others, Shaw may have been also influenced by the historical romance between the German doctor Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle and the seamstress Elise Egloff, through the novel Die Frau Professorin by Berthold Auerbach. Its different location in place and time, the change from the original sculptural fact to a socio-cultural inequality and the striking identity of names between Elise and Eliza contribute to this probability [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Spanish): Este trabajo se focaliza en el filme Pygmalion (1938) de Anthony Asquith y Leslie Howard, relacionado indirectamente con la Medicina y basado en la obra teatral del escritor irlandés George Bernard Shaw inspirada en el Libro X de Las metamorfosis de Ovidio. Empero, no es descartable que, entre otros, Shaw pudo haber sido también influido por el romance histórico entre el médico alemán Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle y la costurera Elise Egloff, a través de la novela Die Frau Professorin de Berthold Auerbach. Su distinta ubicación en lugar y tiempo, el cambio desde el hecho escultórico original a una desigualdad socio-cultural y la llamativa identidad de nombres entre Elise y Eliza contribuyen a esta probabilidad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:This paper focuses on the film Pygmalion (1938), indirectly related to Medicine and based on the play by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, inspired in Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses. However, it cannot be ruled out that, among others, Shaw may have been also influenced by the historical romance between the German doctor Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle and the seamstress Elise Egloff, through the novel Die Frau Professorin by Berthold Auerbach. Its different location in place and time, the change from the original sculptural fact to a socio-cultural inequality and the striking identity of names between Elise and Eliza contribute to this probability [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:18855210
DOI:10.14201/rmc.17037