Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre
Title | Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Beck |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526162717 |
This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years. The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards. It brings together European and North American scholars to establish a critical dialogue on the topics under discussion, while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. In recent years film scholarship has attempted to negotiate the tension between the nationally specific and the internationally ubiquitous, discussing how globalisation has influenced film making and surrounding cultural practice. These broader social concerns have prompted scholars to emphasise a redefinition of national cinemas beyond strict national boundaries and to pay attention to the transnational character of any national site of film production and reception. This collection provides a thorough investigation of contemporary Spanish cinema within a transnational framework, by positing cinematic genres as the meeting spaces between a variety of diverse forces that necessarily operate within but also across territorial spaces. Paying close attention to the specifics of the Spanish cinematic and social panorama, the essays investigate the transnational economic, cultural and aesthetic forces at play in shaping Spanish film genres today.
Contemporary Spanish cinema
Title | Contemporary Spanish cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Jordan |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2019-01-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526141302 |
Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.
Spain on Screen
Title | Spain on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | A. Davies |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2011-01-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 023029474X |
A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film scene, making essential reading for all interested in European cinema.
Global Genres, Local Films
Title | Global Genres, Local Films PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Oliete-Aldea |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2017-06-29 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1501320165 |
The acute processes of globalisation at the turn of the century have generated an increased interest in exploring the interactions between the so-called global cultural products or trends and their specific local manifestations. Even though cross-cultural connections are becoming more patent in filmic productions in the last decades, cinema per se has always been characterized by its hybrid, transnational, border-crossing nature. From its own inception, Spanish film production was soon tied to the Hollywood film industry for its subsistence, but other film traditions such as those in the Soviet Union, France, Germany and, in particular, Italy also determined either directly or indirectly the development of Spanish cinema. Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema reaches beyond the limits of the film text and analyses and contextualizes the impact of global film trends and genres on Spanish cinema in order to study how they helped articulate specific national challenges from the conflict between liberalism and tradition in the first decades of the 20th century to the management of the contemporary financial crisis. This collection provides the first comprehensive picture of the complex national and supranational forces that have shaped Spanish films, revealing the tensions and the intricate dialogue between cross-cultural aesthetic and narrative models on the one hand, and indigenous traditions on the other, as well as the political and historical contingencies these different expressions responded to.
Religion and Spanish Film
Title | Religion and Spanish Film PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Scarlett |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 211 |
Release | 2014-12-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0472052454 |
How Spanish directors have handled religious themes, with their highly-charged political implications, from the historical avant-garde to 2010
Spanish Lessons
Title | Spanish Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Julian Smith |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-09-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1785331094 |
Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult. Whether generating new insights into the work of key figures like Pedro Almodóvar, comparing media depictions of Spain’s economic woes, or giving long-overdue critical attention to quality television series, Smith’s book is a consistently lively and accessible cultural investigation.
Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema
Title | Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Silvia Dibeltulo |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2018-08-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3319901346 |
Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume’s content—the films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysis—is diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat “other” national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other. In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.