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MANCHESTER Spanish Cinema 1973-2010 Auteurism Politics Landscape and Memory 2014 Edition by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian
This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of thirty-five years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espiritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodovar, Jose Garci, Carlos Saura) and the younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenabar, Bollain) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. -- . Table of contents :- List of illustrationsNotes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - Maria M. Delgado 1. El espiritu de la colmena/ The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973): To Kill a Mocking Bird as neglected inter-text - Robin Fiddian 2. Cet obscur objet du desir/That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, 1977): Bunuel's technique - Mark Millington 3. Ocana. Retrat intermittent/Ocana. An Intermittent Portrait (Ventura Pons, 1977): The Mediterranean movida and the passing away of Francoist Barcelona - Alberto Mira 4. El dorado (Carlos Saura, 1987): The keys to El Dorado - Agustin Sanchez Vidal 5. El sol del membrillo/The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice, 1992): Moving pictures - painting, drawing and filmmaking - Maria Jose Martinez Jurico and Stephen G.H. Roberts 6. Vacas/Cows (Julio Medem, 1992): From Goya's dining room via Apocalypse Now - Jo Evans 7. Tesis/Thesis (Alejandro Amenabar, 1996): Delights and follies in filmic discourse - Maria Donapetry 8. Un instante en la vida ajena/An Instant of Distant Life (Jose Luis Lopez- Linares, 2003): Domesticating the documentary archive - Kathleen M. Vernon 9. Ninette (Jose Luis Garci, 2005): Paris revisited - Sue Harris 10. El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006): Spanish horror - Paul Julian Smith 11. La noche de los girasoles/The Night of the Sunflowers (Jorge Sanchez-Cabezudo, 2006): Palimpsests of genre, palimpsests of violence - Tom Whittaker 12. En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin, 2007) and the duree of a derive - Rob Stone 13. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008): Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem acting strangely - Chris Perriam 14. La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008): Silence, historical memory and metaphor - Maria M. Delgado 15. Los abrazos rotos/ Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar, 2009): Talking cures - Marvin D'Lugo 16. V.O.S. (Cesc Gay, 2009): From Shakespearean comedy to national identity - Celestino Deleyto 17. Y tambien la lluvia/Even the Rain (Iciar Bollain, 2010): Social realism, transnationalism and (neo)colonialism - Duncan WheelerIndex -- .