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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... offered by the Instituto Cervantes. We have also looked at a number of films which will not be readily available to readers of this book in order to provide a reasonably detailed picture of the director, genre, theme, issue or question ...
... offered by the Instituto Cervantes. We have also looked at a number of films which will not be readily available to readers of this book in order to provide a reasonably detailed picture of the director, genre, theme, issue or question ...
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... offered by other survey books in English on the subject (including Besas, Higginbotham, Hopewell, Kinder, etc.), our study aims to complement these as well as update the information and recent developments that have been important ...
... offered by other survey books in English on the subject (including Besas, Higginbotham, Hopewell, Kinder, etc.), our study aims to complement these as well as update the information and recent developments that have been important ...
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... offering an explanation for the way in which history and fantasy have become increasingly intertwined. At the same time, throughout the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant output of both popular movies and less accessible ...
... offering an explanation for the way in which history and fantasy have become increasingly intertwined. At the same time, throughout the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant output of both popular movies and less accessible ...
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... offered a prime example of Roland Barthes's argument that 'myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all History' (1973: 165). As Higginbotham indicates: 'Imperial attitudes of sacrifice, patriotism, and military glory coincide ...
... offered a prime example of Roland Barthes's argument that 'myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all History' (1973: 165). As Higginbotham indicates: 'Imperial attitudes of sacrifice, patriotism, and military glory coincide ...
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... offered audiences the dual satisfaction of witnessing 'real-life drama' packaged within classic, popular narrative forms. The structural and stylistic features of the thriller genre, for example, captured both the dramatic impact of ...
... offered audiences the dual satisfaction of witnessing 'real-life drama' packaged within classic, popular narrative forms. The structural and stylistic features of the thriller genre, for example, captured both the dramatic impact of ...
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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