The war that won't die : the Spanish Civil War in cinema / David Archibald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archibald, David, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

War and motion pictures.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Motion pictures and the war.

Spain.

Physical Description:

x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Summary:

The War That Won't Die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miro - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship.

Contents:

1 Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War: For Whom the Bell Tolls 30

2 The Spanish Civil War in East German cinema: Fünf Patronenhülsen/Five Cartridges 48

3 Surrealism and the past: Fernando Arrabal and the Spanish Civil War 64

4 Film under Franco: La caza/The Hunt and El jardin de las delicias/The Garden of Delights 82

5 Recycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows 99

6 No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in cinema 115

7 Ghosts of the past: El espinazo del Diablo/The Devil's Backbone 134

8 A story from the Spanish Revolution: Land and Freedom/Tierra y Libertad 151

9 The search for truth in Soldados de Salamina/Soldiers of Salamina 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-205) and index.

Includes filmography (pages [188]-192).

ISBN:

9780719078088

0719078083

OCLC:

798615424