Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

✍ Scribed by Ann Davies

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 167
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume provides a collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film scene, making essential reading for all interested in European cinema.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
1 Introduction: The Study of Contemporary Spanish Cinema......Page 14
2 Audiences, Film Culture, Public Subsidies: The End of Spanish Cinema?......Page 32
3 Al mal tiempo, buena cara: Spanish Slackers, Time-images, New Media and the New Cinema Law......Page 54
4 Re-visions of Teresa: Historical Fiction in Television and Film......Page 73
5 The Final Girl and Monstrous Mother of El orfanato......Page 92
6 Ensnared Between Pleasure and Politics: Looking for Chicas Bigas Luna, Re-viewing Bambola......Page 106
7 Javier Bardem: Costume, Crime, and Commitment......Page 127
8 Children of Exile: Trauma, Memory and Testimony in Jaime Camino's Documentary Los niños de Rusia (2001)......Page 142
Index......Page 164

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