Spanish Cinema against Itself Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy / Steven Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsh, Steven, 1963-

Series:

New directions in national cinemas.

New directions in national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Spain--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Spain--History--21st century.

Motion pictures--Spain--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2020]

Summary:

1. This book is a theoretical study that explores understudied filmmakers, producers, and film collectives in Spanish cinema. It demonstrates how this marginal, experimental, and politically militant cinema works against dominant national narratives in Spanish. 2. By exploring this Spanish counter history this book also considers the broader role such cinema has played in transnational settings. 3. Author Steven Marsh is an established scholar of Spanish cinema.

Contents:

Introduction: differance. otherness. experiment

Interrogations of the national allegory: trance film and ethnography

Intermediality, intoxication, and the infrathin

The discontinuous legacies of Pere Portabella: between heritage and inheritance

History, hauntology, representation: Spanish cinema against itself

The ex of experimentation: against periodization

The catacoustic and the cosmopolitan: rhythm and timbre in the films of Andres Duque

Turns and returns, envois/renvois: the postal effect in recent Spanish film

Retrospective future perfect: history, black holes, and time warps in the films of los hijos and Luis López Carrasco

"No nos representan!": performativity as militant film, the 15-M Archive

Afterword: unruly archives. La decima carta and Buenas noches, España.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0253046335

0253046343

OCLC:

1273306346