Contemporary Spanish cinemaContemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies. |
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Page 11
... adaptation and period drama to retro thriller and musical. What we argue is that during the transition period (1976-82), Spanish cinema was seriously concerned with recuperating a historical past and a popular memory that had been ...
... adaptation and period drama to retro thriller and musical. What we argue is that during the transition period (1976-82), Spanish cinema was seriously concerned with recuperating a historical past and a popular memory that had been ...
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... adaptations of literary classics and period dramas, to the recycling of retrospective genres such as the noirish thriller and canción española musicals. Elements of nostalgia are also prominent in films which are simultaneously ...
... adaptations of literary classics and period dramas, to the recycling of retrospective genres such as the noirish thriller and canción española musicals. Elements of nostalgia are also prominent in films which are simultaneously ...
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... adaptation, the personalisation of historical memory, nostalgia and the revival of retrospective genres, the role of the rural genre, and the symbiotic relationship between the past and the present. Literary adaptations: Socialist film ...
... adaptation, the personalisation of historical memory, nostalgia and the revival of retrospective genres, the role of the rural genre, and the symbiotic relationship between the past and the present. Literary adaptations: Socialist film ...
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... adaptation of Crónica del rey pasmado (1989), by well-known historical novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, whose work has been the subject of numerous television adaptations; Imanol Uribe is a recognised director with a reputation ...
... adaptation of Crónica del rey pasmado (1989), by well-known historical novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, whose work has been the subject of numerous television adaptations; Imanol Uribe is a recognised director with a reputation ...
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... adaptations encouraged by PSOE film policy during the last decade also reflected a general trend towards the recuperation of Spain's cultural past. Similar concerns had been a central feature of Francoist cultural practices, where they ...
... adaptations encouraged by PSOE film policy during the last decade also reflected a general trend towards the recuperation of Spain's cultural past. Similar concerns had been a central feature of Francoist cultural practices, where they ...
Contents
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popular genre film in postFranco Spain | 61 |
3 Gender and sexuality in postFranco cinema | 112 |
film in the autonomous regions | 156 |
Conclusion | 205 |
Index | 209 |
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