Spanish Meta Art And Contemporary Cinema

Author : Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 8765101375
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema written by Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can cinema reveal its audience's most subversive thinking? Do films have the potential to project their viewers' innermost thoughts making them apparent on the screen? This book argues that cinema has precisely this power, to unveil to the spectator their own hidden thoughts. It examines case studies from various cultures in conversation with Spain, a country whose enduring masterpieces in self-reflexive or meta-art provide insight into the special dynamic between viewer and screen. Framed around critical readings of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Diego Velázquez' Las meninas and Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, this book examines contemporary films by Víctor Erice, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Alejandro Amenábar, Lucrecia Martel, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Jonze, Andrzej Zulawski, Fernando Pérez, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg to illustrate how self-reflexivity in film unbridles the mental repression of film spectators. It proposes cinema as an uncanny duplication of the workings of the brain – a doppelgänger to human thought.

Author : Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema written by Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can cinema reveal its audience's most subversive thinking? Do films have the potential to project their viewers' innermost thoughts making them apparent on the screen? This book argues that cinema has precisely this power, to unveil to the spectator their own hidden thoughts. It examines case studies from various cultures in conversation with Spain, a country whose enduring masterpieces in self-reflexive or meta-art provide insight into the special dynamic between viewer and screen. Framed around critical readings of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Diego Velázquez' Las meninas and Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, this book examines contemporary films by Víctor Erice, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Alejandro Amenábar, Lucrecia Martel, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Jonze, Andrzej Zulawski, Fernando Pérez, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg to illustrate how self-reflexivity in film unbridles the mental repression of film spectators. It proposes cinema as an uncanny duplication of the workings of the brain – a doppelgänger to human thought.

Author : Paul J. Smith
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745630526
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Spanish Culture written by Paul J. Smith and published by Polity. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible introduction to the exciting field of contemporary Spanish visual culture is the first of its kind. It combines cultural context with close readings of particular works. Going beyond the field of cinema, in which Spain is an acknowledged leader, Smith examines new developments in television, where original and innovative series drama has recently blossomed. He also explores Spanish fashion, where 'classic' design is married to high tech production and distribution. Two aspects of Spanish visual art are considered: the career of Miquel Barcelo, global artist and pure painter, and Basque conceptual art which, through photography and installation, puts a new spin on international questions of gender and sexuality. Finally, Contemporary Spanish Culture examines Catalan independent cinema and the most recent work of Spain's best known director, Pedro Almodovar, who has resurrected a genre long considered dead: the art movie. This innovative new book provides an ideal introduction for undergraduates and will be essential reading for those working in Hispanic studies, cultural studies, and film.

Author : Salvador Jiménez Murguía
Publisher : National Cinemas
ISBN 13 : 9781442271326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films written by Salvador Jiménez Murguía and published by National Cinemas. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlighting the movies that were produced after the Franco's death in 1976--a new era in which creative expression emerged from the censorship imposed by an autocratic dictator. The titles included herein represent a national cinema to reflect a public sentiment about a society in the wake of systematic artistic suppression.

Author : Jay Beck
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526162717
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre written by Jay Beck and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years. The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards. It brings together European and North American scholars to establish a critical dialogue on the topics under discussion, while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. In recent years film scholarship has attempted to negotiate the tension between the nationally specific and the internationally ubiquitous, discussing how globalisation has influenced film making and surrounding cultural practice. These broader social concerns have prompted scholars to emphasise a redefinition of national cinemas beyond strict national boundaries and to pay attention to the transnational character of any national site of film production and reception. This collection provides a thorough investigation of contemporary Spanish cinema within a transnational framework, by positing cinematic genres as the meeting spaces between a variety of diverse forces that necessarily operate within but also across territorial spaces. Paying close attention to the specifics of the Spanish cinematic and social panorama, the essays investigate the transnational economic, cultural and aesthetic forces at play in shaping Spanish film genres today.

Author : Barry Jordan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526141302
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Spanish cinema written by Barry Jordan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.

Author : Fiona Noble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350152463
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Spanish Cinema written by Fiona Noble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Performance functions as a diversion from unsavoury realities. In this way, Pedro Almodóvar's 2013 film I'm So Excited adopts a strategy of subversive anti-establishment censor-evading filmmaking practices under Franco. Contemporary cinematic performance in Spain intersects with politics to provide a platform for views and voices that do not conform to the dominant political narrative. An essential text for scholars, students and aficionados of Spanish cinema, Subversive Spanish Cinema: The Politics of Performance is the first single-authored monograph to focus on performance in this context. The book analyses interactions between performance and politics in technical and conceptual terms considering, for example, performance styles, the narrative role of performance and political interventions by actors such as Javier Bardem and Juan Diego Botto. Ultimately, Subversive Spanish Cinema: The Politics of Performance posits performance, within the specific context of contemporary Spanish cinema, as a politically-potent device and proposes that it is precisely for this reason that the arts have borne the brunt of aggressive austerity measures enforced by Spain's conservative government in recent years.

Author : Ana María Sánchez-Arce
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526151014
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar written by Ana María Sánchez-Arce and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

Author : Thomas G. Deveny
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781789380064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium written by Thomas G. Deveny and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. Davies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023029474X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spain on Screen written by A. Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film scene, making essential reading for all interested in European cinema.