Spanish Cinema 1973-2010

Auteurism, Politics, Landscape and Memory

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Edited by Maria M. Delgado and Robin Fiddian

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Spain

Keywords

Spain, modernism, auteur cinema

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 272 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches (16 x 24.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7190-8711-0

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Book Presentation:
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 analyzed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of "national" cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.

About the authors:
Maria M. Delgado is Professor of Theatre and Screen Arts at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Robin Fiddian is Professor of Spanish, Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK.

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