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The Cinema of Spain and Portugal
Providing an overview of Spanish and Portuguese cinema, this title contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region, profiling work from the likes of Pedro Almodıvar and João Cesar Monteiro.
Hijas de Adán
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Remaking Madrid
Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the 1980s helped secure Spain's fragile transition to democracy and that the transformation itself was primarily a product of "regionalism"-even though the capital is typically associated with "Spanishness" and with "the nation." The official project to distance Madrid from its dictatorial past included urban renewal and administrative reform; but, above all, it involved greater cultural participation, which led the revival of the capital's public festivals and the development of a modern cultural outpouring known as the movida madrileña. The book also explains the ultimate failure of regionalism in the capital by the end of the 1980s and asks whether or not Madrid's inclusive form of "civic" identity might have served as a model for the country as a whole.
Constructing Spain
Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space was officially reopened to Western thought and capital, and culminating in 2003, the year of Aznar's unpopular involvement of his country in the second Iraq War, Richardson traces in popular and critically acclaimed fiction and film an evolution in Spanish storytelling that, while initially representative in nature, i...
A Book of European Writers
A Book of European Writers A-Z By Country Published on June 12, 2014 in USA.
Azul París
Una novela intimista que rinde homenaje al teatro y al amor, además de alzar un brindis por las oportunidades inesperadas que nos da la vida. Hugo Montalbán, famoso director de teatro, comienza el año ensayando la obra en la que lleva tiempo trabajando y con la que aspira a poner fin a su carrera: El regreso de la señora Làmbert. Es una función ambientada en 1945, en París, cuando una familia a la que dan por muerta reaparece tras la vergonzosa noche en la que los judíos franceses fueron detenidos con la connivencia del general Pétain y llevados al campo de exterminio de Auschwitz. Entre los miembros de la compañía está Silvia Carvajal, una actriz con la que Hugo mantiene una estrecha amistad llena de complicidades y que, por el cariño que les une, se ha convertido en una presencia constante en su vida. Todo transcurre con las dificultades propias de cualquier montaje escénico hastaque un imprevisto obliga a parar los ensayos temporalmente, un hecho que cambiará la vida de todos los personajes para siempre.
Dark Laughter
In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. Egea begins his analysis with General Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s—a regime that opened the country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressive nature—exploring key works by Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, and Luis Buñuel. Dark Laughter then moves to the first films of Pedro Almodóvar in the early 1980s during the Spanish political transition to democracy before examining Alex de la Iglesia and the new dark comedies of the 1990s. Analyzing this younger generation of filmmakers, Egea traces dark comedy to Spain's displays of ultramodernity such as the Universal Exposition in Seville and the Barcelona Olympic Games. At its core, Dark Laughter is a substantial inquiry into the epistemology of comedy, the intricacies of visual modernity, and the relationship between cinema and a wider framework of representational practices.
Film Criticism
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Eksemplets makt
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