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Religion and Spanish film : Luis Buñuel, the Franco era, and contemporary directors /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarlett, Elizabeth A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Religion in motion pictures.
Catholic Church > In motion pictures.
Buñuel, Luis, > 1900-1983 > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: God and the Spanish director
  • Luis Buñuel and the reinvention of Catholicism
  • Looking back in anger: iconoclastic and anticlerical roots
  • Catholicism reinvented in later films
  • The religious genre and its discontents in Francoist Spain
  • History of the Christian religious genre film
  • Preaching to the converted: missionaries and apparitions of Mary
  • Lives of the saints as measures of holiness and citizenship
  • New genres and new wave directors of the sixties and seventies
  • Breaking boundaries: post-Franco and contemporary directors
  • Variations on a theme of national identity: reclaiming St. Teresa
  • Pedro Almodóvar and the gathering storm
  • Postmodern skepticism versus the need to believe
  • Conclusion: religion and the Spanish habitus.