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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... explore the relationships between Spanish film and Spanish culture, which are central to the concerns of this book. Our study focuses crucially on Spanish cinema as a cultural product and explores the ways in which its representations ...
... explore the relationships between Spanish film and Spanish culture, which are central to the concerns of this book. Our study focuses crucially on Spanish cinema as a cultural product and explores the ways in which its representations ...
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... explore the obsession of Spanish cinema with the past and its role as part of a wider recuperation industry, and examines the varied forms of historical cinema ranging from literary adaptation and period drama to retro thriller and ...
... explore the obsession of Spanish cinema with the past and its role as part of a wider recuperation industry, and examines the varied forms of historical cinema ranging from literary adaptation and period drama to retro thriller and ...
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... explore the way genre cinema taps into changing contemporary cultural attitudes and how it makes its appeal, what functions it fulfils through its various generic guises and how it acknowledges social change. This can be seen, for ...
... explore the way genre cinema taps into changing contemporary cultural attitudes and how it makes its appeal, what functions it fulfils through its various generic guises and how it acknowledges social change. This can be seen, for ...
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... explores a theme central to both distant and more recent Spanish experience: the invidious and absurd effects of the imposition of a rigid authority and perverse moral code. The flood of literary adaptations encouraged by PSOE film ...
... explores a theme central to both distant and more recent Spanish experience: the invidious and absurd effects of the imposition of a rigid authority and perverse moral code. The flood of literary adaptations encouraged by PSOE film ...
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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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