Cine cleptómano: Shame (2011) de Steve McQueen y la intertextualidad

The aim of this paper is to analyse the transtextual features of Steve McQueen’s film Shame (2011), according to the methodology of the literary theorist Gerard Genette. A series of intertextual references in McQueen’s film has been identified and analysed; these allusions would connect Shame with other movies from the history of cinema and with the work of some of the greatest painters of the 20th Century. As a result, the film becomes a meaningful transtextual palimpsest which provides its own meaning from the combination of meanings of its underlying texts. In other words, Shame becomes a good example of «Kleptomaniac Cinema».