Spanish cinema 1973-2010 : auteurism, politics, landscape and memory /
This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish c...
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Manchester ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Maria M. Delgado
- El espíritu de la colmena/The spirit of the beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973): To kill a mocking bird as neglected inter-text / Robin Fiddian
- Cet obscur objet du désir/That obscure object of desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977): Buñuel's technique / Mark Millington
- Ocaña: retrat intermittent/Ocaña: an intermittent portrait (Ventura Pons, 1977): the Mediterranean movida and the passing away of Francoist Barcelona / Alberto Mira
- El dorado (Carlos Saura, 1987): the keys to El Dorado / Agustín Sánchez Vidal, translated by Mar Diestro-Dópido
- El sol del membrillo/The quince tree sun (Víctor Erice, 1992): moving pictures - painting, drawing and filmmaking / María José Martínez Jurico and Stephen G.H. Roberts
- Vacas/Cows (Julio Medem, 1992): from Goya's dining room via Apocalypse now / Jo Evans
- Tesis/Thesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996): delights and follies in filmic discourse / María Donapetry
- Un instante en la vida ajena/A glimpse of other lives (José Luis López-Linares, 2003): domesticating the documentary archive / Kathleen M. Vernon
- Ninette (José Luis Garci, 2005): Paris revisited / Sue Harris
- El laberinto del fauno/Pan's labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006): Spanish horror / Paul Julian Smith
- La noche de los girasoles/The night of the sunflowers (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, 2006): palimpsests of genre, palimpsests of violence / Tom Whittaker
- En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the city of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, 2007) and the durée of a dérive / Rob Stone
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008): Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem acting strangely / Chris Perriam
- La mujer sin cabeza/The headless woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008): silence, historical memory and metaphor / Maria M. Delgado
- Los abrazos rotos/Broken embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, 2009): talking cures / Marvin D'Lugo
- V.O.S. (Cesc Gay, 2009): from Shakespearean comedy to national identity / Celestino Deleyto
- Y también la lluvia/Even the rain (Iciar Bollain, 2010): social realism, transnationalism and (neo)colonialism / Duncan Wheeler.