Spanish Cinema
The Auteurist Tradition
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 November 1999
- ISBN 9780198184140
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 216x137x22 mm
- Weight 485 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp black and white plates 0
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Short description:
Spanish Cinema offers lively readings by established writers on Spanish cinema of key films made by leading directors working in the art-movie or 'auteurist' tradition. It aims to strike a balance between representative films, directors and periods, ranging from 1952, the first screening of Bienvenido Mr Marshall to Almodovar, Bigas Luna, Juilo Medem and beyond. Each chapter concentrates on a single film, discussing it in accessible critical language that takes account both of the distinctiveness of film as an art form and of the material and socio-historical contexts in which each film was made.
MoreLong description:
The liveliness and importance of Spanish cinema is increasingly being recognised outside Spain, in film festivals, television exposure, and courses in Institutions of Higher Education. To a large extent this is 'auteur' or art-movie cinema. Spanish Cinema concentrates upon that tradition, focusing upon the key films in a period stretching from 1952 to the present day. The term 'auteur' has lately fallen into disrepute. The idea - most actively promoted by Cahiers du Cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s - that the director is to a film what an author is to a poem, play or novel, has been subjected to much criticism since structuralist and post-structuralist attacks on the author. But even in pre-'death of the author' days film raised its own specific problems about authorship. Nevertheless, since the initial excitement of French critical theory's provocative assault on conventional notions of authorship, and taking into account specific problems related to the collaborative nature of film-making, attempts have recently been made to reclaim some of the ground lost by the author in these critical and theoretical battles.
This volume offers lively readings of films by key directors working to a large extent in the art-movie/'auteurist' field, and aims to strike a balance between representative films, directors and periods. Each chapter concentrates on a single film, discussing it in accessible critical language that takes account both of the distinctiveness of film as an art form and of the material and socio-historical contexts in which each film was made.
An important collection of essays on Spanish cinema by leading Hispanic film critics ... this is a collection that will serve as an extremely useful resource for researchers into Spanish film.
