A companion to Spanish cinema / edited by Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Labanyi, Jo.

Pavlovic, Tatjana.

Series:

CNCZ - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Spain.

Motion pictures.

Performing arts--Spain.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (666 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives. Presents an insightful and provocative collection of newly commissioned essays and original research by top international scholars from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary and geographical perspectives Offers a systematic historical, thematic, and theoretical approach to Spanish cinema, unique in the field Combines a thorough and...

Contents:

A Companion to Spanish Cinema; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Reframing the National; 2 Transnational Frameworks; Introduction (Marvin D'Lugo and Gerard Dapena); Transnational Beginnings (Gerard Dapena); Breaking the Sound Barrier (Gerard Dapena); War, Isolation, and New Transnational Openings (Gerard Dapena); The Golden Age of Popular Coproductions (Gerard Dapena); The Politics of the Transnational Auteur (Marvin D'Lugo); The Producer-Author as Transnational Entrepreneur (Marvin D'Lugo)

The Latin American Connection (Alberto Elena) Cinematic Relations with the Arab World (Alberto Elena); Spanish Cinema by Immigrant Directors (Alberto Elena); References; Further Reading; 3 Echoes and Traces: Catalan Cinema, or Cinema in Catalonia; Other Voices, Other Scripts: Language, Imagery, and Censorship; Spectacular (Dis)locations: Art, Business, and Morality; Troubled Transitions: The "Talkies," the Republic, the Civil War, the Dictatorship, and Beyond; Notes; References; Further Reading; 4 Negotiating the Local and the Global: Andalusia, the Basque Country, and Galicia

Introduction: Fragmentation, Invisibility, and Political Devolution (José Colmeiro)On the Global Formation of Andalusian and Basque Cinemas (Joseba Gabilondo); Galician Cinema: Making the Invisible Visible (José Colmeiro); References; Further Reading; Part II The Construction of the Auteur; 5 Auteurism and the Construction of the Canon; Auteurism and Spain (Marvin D'Lugo); Luis Buñuel (Marvin D'Lugo); Carlos Saura (Marvin D'Lugo); Pedro Almodóvar (Paul Julian Smith); Víctor Erice (Paul Julian Smith); Julio Medem (Paul Julian Smith); Alejandro Amenábar (Paul Julian Smith); References

Further Reading6 Strategic Auteurism; Introduction (Susan Martin-Márquez); Neville, Berlanga, and de la Iglesia: A Strategically Disruptive Auteurism (Steven Marsh); Authorizing Screenwriting: Rafael Azcona and Pedro Beltrán (Santos Zunzunegui); Jesús Franco: From Pulp Auteur to Cult Auteur (Antonio Lázaro-Reboll); Pere Portabella: The Politics and Aesthetics of Auteurism (Santos Zunzunegui); Editing in the Woman Auteur (Susan Martin-Márquez); Notes; References; Further Reading; Part III Genre; 7 Comedy and Musicals; Comedy in Spanish Cinema: An Overview (Steven Marsh)

Queridos cómicos: Actors and Entertainment (Santos Zunzunegui) The Heyday of the Musical Film (Eva Woods Peiró); Contemporary Musical Comedy, Sex, and Gender (Chris Perriam); Conclusion (Chris Perriam); Notes; References; Further Reading; 8 Melodrama and Historical Film; Melodrama: Modernity's Rebellious Genre (Annabel Martín); The Historical Film: Genre and Legibility (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega); The Ambivalent Attractions of the Past: Historical Film of the Early Franco Period (Jo Labanyi)

Between the National and the Global: The Historical Film from the 1960's to the Present (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613916594

9781118322772

1118322770

9781782689720

1782689729

9781118322765

1118322762

9781283604147

1283604140

9781118322796

1118322797

9781118322802

1118322800

OCLC:

815389179