Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema
Title | Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jenaro Talens |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780816629749 |
Isolated by the repressions and censorship of Franco's regime, Spanish cinema developed distinctive style and content from the 1930s to the 1970s, largely without reference to its international counterparts. Through a series of close readings of films made in the Republican period under Franco and more recently under socialism, contributors here seek to present a clearer picture of Spanish national cinema.
Refiguring Spain
Title | Refiguring Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Marsha Kinder |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822319382 |
In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues of historical recuperation, gender and sexuality, and the marketing of Spain's peaceful political transformation, the contributors demonstrate that Spanish cinema and other forms of Spanish media culture created new national stereotypes and strengthened the nation's place in the global market and on the global stage. These essays consider a diverse array of texts, ranging from recent films by Almodóvar, Saura, Erice, Miró, Bigas Luna, Gutiérrez Aragón, and Eloy de la Iglesia to media coverage of the 1993 elections. Francoist cinema and other popular media are examined in light of strategies used to redefine Spain's cultural identity. The importance of the documentary, the appropriation of Hollywood film, and the significance of gender and sexuality in Spanish cinema are also discussed, as is the discourse of the Spanish media star--whether involving film celebrities like Rita Hayworth and Antonio Banderas or historical figures such as Cervantes. The volume concludes with an investigation of larger issues of government policy in relation to film and media, including a discussion of the financing of Spanish cinema and an exploration of the political dynamics of regional television and art museums. Drawing on a wide range of critical discourses, including feminist, postcolonial, and queer theory, political economy, cultural history, and museum studies, Refiguring Spain is the first comprehensive anthology on Spanish cinema in the English language. Contributors. Peter Besas, Marvin D'Lugo, Selma Reuben Holo, Dona M. Kercher, Marsha Kinder, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Richard Maxwell, Hilary L. Neroni, Paul Julian Smith, Roland B. Tolentino, Stephen Tropiano, Kathleen M. Vernon, Iñaki Zabaleta
A Companion to Spanish Cinema
Title | A Companion to Spanish Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard P. E. Bentley |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1855661764 |
This volume offers a detailed chronological account of the history of Spanish cinema.
Spanish Popular Cinema
Title | Spanish Popular Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Lázaro Reboll |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2004-09-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780719062834 |
This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema. Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a range of genres, from the musicals of the 1930s and 1940s to contemporary horror movies, historical epics of the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary representations of the Spanish Civil War. The book includes reappraisals of key popular directors such as Luis Garcia Berlanga and Antonio Mercero as well as critical analyses of celebrated stars like Marisol. It provides innovative consideration of the promotion and reception of horror in the 1960s, recollections of cinema-going in Madrid, and reflections on successful recent works such as Abre los Ojos and Solas.
Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema
Title | Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Alberto Mira |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 603 |
Release | 2019-12-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1538122685 |
Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema covers Spanish cinema, its treasures its constant attempts to break through internationally, reaching out towards universal themes and conventions, and the specific obstacles and opportunities that have shaped the careers of filmmakers and stars. This book contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on titles, movements, filmmakers and performers, and genres (such as homosexuality, nuevo cine español or horror). This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Spanish cinema.
Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays.
Title | Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. PDF eBook |
Author | Andrés Zamora |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2016-05-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1781384622 |
The book explores post-Franco Spanish film’s tacit or explicit, but always resolute, essays from 1975 to 2000 to make over Spain’s national, in fact post-national, identity.
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.