%0 Journal Article %A López, Daniel Ares %T Imagined continuities: The story of El Cid as a post-9/11 War on Terror narrative in Filmax/José Pozo’s animated feature film El Cid. La Leyenda %D 2014 %J Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, %V 11 %N 1 %P 43-59 %@ 2050-4845 %R https://doi.org/10.1386/slac.11.1.43_1 %K neo-Orientalism %K global animation film %K War on Terror %K animation film %K film medievalism %K El Cid %I Intellect, %X Abstract This article analyzes the Spanish-produced and internationally distributed animation film El Cid: The Legend (Pozo 2003) in its pedagogical and ideological dimensions as a medievalist Disney-type genre animation film within the post-9/11 global sociopolitical and media context. Pozo re-signifies the story of El Cid by merging two narratives and temporalities. On one level, the film constructs a narrative about medieval Iberia that incorporates progressive ideas about multicultural convivencia along with more traditionalist views of the Kingdom of Castile as the heroic re-civilizing agent of the Reconquista. The film also includes a Manichean narrative based on the post-Cold War media discourse-narrative of the War on Terror. In this manner, El Cid participates in a process of construction and pedagogical dissemination of a Spanish/western ideological ‘common sense’ that generates particular ways of conceiving and narrating the West’s relation with the Islamic world. This common sense combines liberal-humanist notions of multi-ethnic coexistence with neo-Orientalist imaginaries. %U https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/slac.11.1.43_1