The war that won't die : the Spanish Civil War in cinema / David Archibald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archibald, David, 1964- author.

Series:

Manchester Film Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Motion pictures and the war.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War, and the book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. Its focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of illustrations

Introduction: film, history and the Spanish Civil War

1. Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War: for whom the bell tolls

2. The Spanish Civil War in east German cinema: Fünf Patronenhülsen/Five Cartridges

3. Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War in cinema: ¡Viva La Muerte!/Long Live Death and L' arbre de Guernica/The Tree of Guernica

4. Film under Franco: La caza/The Hunt and El jardín de las delicias/The Garden of Delights

5. Re-cycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows

6. No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in cinema

7. Ghosts of the past: El espinazo del Diablo/The Devil’s Backbone

8. A story from the Spanish revolution: Land and Freedom/Tierra y Libertad

9. The search for truth in Soldados de Salamina/Soldiers of Salamina

Conclusion

Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 23, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-4184-1

1-78170-459-7

OCLC:

967259622