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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 25 March 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350242425
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 327 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 bw illus 190
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Long description:
In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orphanage and Timecrimes have received widespread attention and popularity, arguably rescuing Spanish cinema from its semi-invisibility during the creativity-crushing Franco years. By turns daring, evocative, outrageous, and intense, this new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots. Beginning in the 1990s, films from directors such as Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenabar, and Jaume Balaguero reinvigorated Spanish cinema in the horror, science fiction and fantasy veins as their work proliferated and took centre stage at international festivals such as Sitges, Fantasia International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Through an examination of key films and filmmakers, Shelagh Rowan-Legg here investigates the rise of this unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field.Its emergence is part of a new trend of postnational cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity.
MoreTable of Contents:
IntroductionBastard Sons: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film
Chapter 1Álex de la Iglesia: The Father of a Generation
Mutant Action and The Day of the Beast
Chapter 2Heroes and Villains
The Birthday and The Backwoods
Chapter 3Alejandro Amenábar: The Drop-Out Auteur
Open Your Eyes and The Others
Chapter 4The Haunting of Houses
The Abandoned and The Orphanage
Chapter 5Jaume Balagueró: The Horror Aficionado
The Nameless and Darkness
Chapter 6The Spanish Fantastic Woman
Sexykiller and Hierro
Chapter 7Guillermo del Toro: The Outside Man
The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth
Chapter 8Franchising the Spanish Fantastic
The [REC] Films
Chapter 9Nacho Vigalondo, The Illegitimate Inheritor
Timescrimes and Extraterrestrial
ConclusionThe End of an Era?
