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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... forms of media entertainment. Indeed, in 1994, at 6.8 millions, audience figures for Spanish movies were at their lowest for many years, representing only 7 per cent of market share. Moreover, in the same year, Spain's film industry ...
... forms of media entertainment. Indeed, in 1994, at 6.8 millions, audience figures for Spanish movies were at their lowest for many years, representing only 7 per cent of market share. Moreover, in the same year, Spain's film industry ...
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... forms of historical cinema ranging from literary 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 ...
... forms of historical cinema ranging from literary 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 ...
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... forms of genre cinema which have dominated the commercial industry and the popular imagination in Spain since the 1970s. Dealing with the comedy and its many subgeneric types as well as the thriller, the musical, the fantasy, adventure ...
... forms of genre cinema which have dominated the commercial industry and the popular imagination in Spain since the 1970s. Dealing with the comedy and its many subgeneric types as well as the thriller, the musical, the fantasy, adventure ...
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... forms part of a wider preoccupation in Spain with recuperating the past. According to Jo Labanyi, 'Recent years have seen something approximating to a “recuperation industry'”, with the refurbishing of museums, restoration of municipal ...
... forms part of a wider preoccupation in Spain with recuperating the past. According to Jo Labanyi, 'Recent years have seen something approximating to a “recuperation industry'”, with the refurbishing of museums, restoration of municipal ...
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... forms of documentary cinema enjoying a brief, but prolific revival alongside dramatised reconstructions of historical events. These graduallygave a menic h sinapS y raropmetnoC way in the early 1980s to a less radical and 16.
... forms of documentary cinema enjoying a brief, but prolific revival alongside dramatised reconstructions of historical events. These graduallygave a menic h sinapS y raropmetnoC way in the early 1980s to a less radical and 16.
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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