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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:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Buñuel, Luis, > 1900-1983 > Criticism and interpretation. Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism. Religion in motion pictures. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.