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The Films of Elías Querejeta : A Producer of Landscapes
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whittaker, Tom.
- Series:
- Iberian and Latin American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign films.
- Male friendship--Drama.
- Unemployment--Drama.
- Local Subjects:
- Foreign films.
- Male friendship--Drama.
- Unemployment--Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain's most important producer. Through their recurring emphasis on landscape, his films have consistently documented a country in the grip of modernization from the 1960's to the present day. In particular, this book investigates the ways in which landscape in his productions can be understood as a site of political struggle against Francoism and Spain's embrace of neoliberal capitalism. In bringing together both the importance of cinematic and spatial production, the twin focus of this...
- Contents:
- Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Producing Resistance: Elías Querejeta's Political Landscapes; Geographies of Anxiety; Spaces of Violence; Infinite Landscapes; Rediscovering Roots: Ecology, Land and Region; No-Man's-Land: Transitional Space and Time; Global Spaces; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-20109-1
- 0-7083-2439-8
- OCLC:
- 772517996
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