Latin hitchcock : how almodovar, amenabar, de la iglesia, del toro and campanella became notorious.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kercher, Dona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Influence.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Almodóvar, Pedro--Criticism and interpretation.

Almodóvar, Pedro.

Iglesia, Álex de la, 1965---Criticism and interpretation.

Iglesia, Álex de la.

Amenábar, Alejandro, 1972---Criticism and interpretation.

Amenábar, Alejandro.

Toro, Guillermo del, 1964---Criticism and interpretation.

Toro, Guillermo del.

Campanella, Juan José--Criticism and interpretation.

Campanella, Juan José.

Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-.

Amenábar, Alejandro, 1972-.

Iglesia, Álex de la, 1965-.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Motion pictures, Spanish--History and criticism.

Motion pictures, Spanish.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Wallflower Press, 2015.

Summary:

Within recent critical discussions of global cinema, Spain and Latin America have been conspicuously absent. This study explores how five major directors who began filmmaking in the late 1980s and 1990s-Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro and Juan José Campanella - modeled their early careers on Hitchcock as they mined his filmic aesthetics. In doubling Hitchcock, their films embrace the global aspirations that his movies nowadays epitomize. This volume is divided into two parts, on Spain and Latin American respectively. Each section is introduced by an extensive city study, based on newspaper accounts from Madrid and Mexico City, about the original reception of Hitchcock's movies that lays the groundwork for the exploration of how local preferences for genre, glamour, moral issues, or humour impacted the definition of transnational success. Latin Hitchcock brings a new approach to world film history, showing the crucial importance of Hitchcock to Spain and Latin American from a commercial and artistic perspective. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Spain

Chapter 1 First Loves, First Cuts: The Initial Response to Hitchcock's Films in Spain 15

Chapter 2 Pedro Almodóvar's Criminal Side: Plot, Humour and Cinematic Style 63

Chapter 3 Drawing on a Darker Humour, Cultural Icons and Mass Media: Álex de la Iglesia's Journey from Outer Space to the Spanish Academy 133

Chapter 4 Against Hitchcock: Alejandro Amenabar's Meteoric Career 183

Part II Latin America

Chapter 5 Latin American Openings: The Reception History of Hitchcock's Films for Mexico City 235

Chapter 6 Guillermo del Toro's Continuing Education: Adapting Hitchcock's Moral and Visual Sensibilities to the World of Horror 266

Chapter 7 Understanding Osmosis: Hitchcock in Argentina Through the Eyes of Juan José Campanella 318.

ISBN:

0231172095

9780231172097

OCLC:

880565889