(Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns - including new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre, and stardom in a transnational age - this reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012 brings leading academics from a broad range of discipl...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32589256*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editorial Note; Chapter 1: Introduction: How and Why this Book Came into Being; Chapter 2: Spanish Films, 1992-2012: Two Decades of Cinematic Production and Critical Discourse; Chapter 3: From the Past to the Present: Contemporising Trends that Define Spanish Cinema; Part 1: Sense and Sensibility: New Forms of Being and Seeing in Recent Spanish Cinema; Chapter 4: Back to Africa? Colonial History and Postcolonial Dynamics in Recent Spanish Cinema.
- Chapter 5: The New Ethos of Gay Culture and the Limits of NormalizationChapter 6: Behind the Enigma Construct: A Certain Trend in Spanish Cinema; Chapter 7: Reproduction and Rhetorical Processes in the Construction of Reality: En Construcción and La leyenda del tiempo as Case Studies; Chapter 8: Art and Ethnography: Miquel Barceló and Isaki Lacuesta
- Earth Magicians?; Chapter 9: The Everyday Affect: Isabel Coixet and the Five Senses; Part 2: Revisiting the Past: The Politics of Memory and the Transition's Cinematic Legacy.
- Chapter 10: Ana Torrent as Palimpsest in Elio Quiroga's No-Do (The Haunting)Chapter 11: Victimhood in Contemporary Spanish Documentary: The Politics of Agency in Jaime Camino's La vieja memoria and Los niños de Rusia; Chapter 12: New Bodies, New Sounds: Rediscovering the Eroticism of the Transition; Chapter 13: Blood and Unfulfilled Promises: Representations of Terrorism and the Transition; Chapter 14: Back to the Future: Repackaging Spain's Troublesome Past for Local and Global Audiences.
- Chapter 15: Clowns, Goats, Music and the Comedic Violent: Late Francoism and the Transition to Democracy in Álex de la Iglesia's FilmsPart 3: Redefining Auteurship, Genre and Stardom in a Transnational Age; Chapter 16: Almodóvar in the USA/The USA in Almodóvar; Chapter 17: Acting and Directing in Spain: Historicizing Stardom and the Author Function; Chapter 18: Sex, Art and Commerce: Penélope Cruz and Isabel Coixet Tackle Philip Roth in Elegy; Chapter 19: Deadly Hybridity: Sexykiller, the Female Serial Killer and the New Spanish Horror Film.
- Chapter 20: Flexing Generic Boundaries: Torrente, [REC] and Adolescent Cinema in SpainChapter 21: The Torrente Tetralogy: A Homegrown Saga; Chapter 22: Hybrid Models: Auteurism and Genre in Contemporary Spanish Crime Thrillers; Chapter 23: Planet 51 and Spanish Animation: The Risks and Attractions of Globalization; Coda: Backstage Pass
- Engaging with Practitioners and Cinematic Institutions; Chapter 24: How to Make Arty Films Now; Chapter 25: How to Make Commercial Films Now; Chapter 26: San Sebastián: A Film Festival of Contrasts.
