Alejandro Amenábar

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by Barry Jordan

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Alejandro Amenábar

Keywords

Alejandro Amenábar, Spain

Publishing date

2012

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Collection

Spanish and Latin American filmmakers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 320 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7190-7589-6

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Book Presentation:
Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the highest-grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004.

This book is the first full-length study in English of Amenábar's shorts and feature films. It provides detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema and incorporates a reappraisal of his auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. An essential resource for students, scholars and fans of Amenábar, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, including professionals in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in the best of Spanish, European and world cinema.

About the Author:
Barry Jordan is Professor of European Cinema and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press

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