Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. / Zamora, Andrés

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamora, Andrés, author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 13

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2016

Summary:

In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis-à-vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought of as an inescapable native trait, in a large amount of post-dictatorial films; 3) the newfound insatiable appetite for cinematic travelling, for going out and coming in through all possible variations of the road and travel movie genres; 4) and the vindication of the mother qua a benign emblem of the land and its people, of the nation. There is a narrative in Spanish cinema, taken as a collectiv... Publisher description

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781781384626

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access