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Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema
In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas Deveny takes the unique approach of looking at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Central America, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Deveny approaches each movie with a close textual analysis, keeping in mind the sociological theories regarding migration, as well as incorporating criticism on the film. Films such as Flowers from Another World, Return to Hansala, El Camino, 14 Kilometers, María Full of Grace, and others are studied throughout.
Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction
Deveny (Spanish, Western Maryland College, Westminster) examines cinematic versions of post-Civil War narratives that debuted during between 1965 and 1995. He begins with an overview of the critical problems of screen adaptations and offers a global analysis of film adaptations of works by 57 authors, including Camilo Jose Cela, Migual Delibes, and Luis Martin Santos and recent best-selling authors such as Antonio Munoz Molina and Juan Madrid. He emphasizes how the end of dictatorship allowed filmmakers to reinterpret Spanish history and literature.
Cain on Screen
Focuses on one of contemporary Spanish cinema's fundamental recurring themes: the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath.
The South
Two novellas by a Spanish writer. In The South, a girl returns to her hometown to learn the truth about her father's suicide, while Bene is on a Gypsy woman accused of being possessed by the Devil.
Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema
In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas Deveny takes the unique approach of looking at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Central America, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Deveny approaches each movie with a close textual analysis, keeping in mind the sociological theories regarding migration, as well as incorporating criticism on the film. Films such as Flowers from Another World, Return to Hansala, El Camino, 14 Kilometers, María Full of Grace, and others are studied throughout.
Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium
Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both 'high' and 'popular' culture side by side. The two film cultures are represented by Goya-winning films and the biggest box-office successes. By analysing the chronological trajectory of the country's most important films over this period, Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium examines contemporary Spain's national identity, culture and film industry.
Transnational Orientalisms in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema
In recent decades in Spain and Latin America, transnational voices, typically stereotyped, alienated or co-opted in the Western world, have been gaining increasing presence in cultural texts. The transnational representation of the “Oriental” subject, namely Arabs and Jews, Chinese and other ethnic groups that have migrated to Spain and Latin America either voluntarily or forcefully, is now being seen anew in both literature and cinema. This book explores Orientalism beyond literature, in which it has already garnered attention, to examine the new ways of seeing and interpreting both the Middle East and the East in contemporary films, in which many of the immigrants traditionally omitted...
Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays.
The book explores post-Franco Spanish film’s tacit or explicit, but always resolute, essays from 1975 to 2000 to make over Spain’s national, in fact post-national, identity.
