Contemporany Spanish cinema
Editorial MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780719044137
- ISBN10 0719044138
- Type BOOK
- Pages 216
- Published 1997
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
History Of CinemaContemporany Spanish cinema
Editorial MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
Contemporary Spanish Cinema offers an essential analysis of the main trends and issues in Spanish film since the death of Franco in 1975. While taking account of cinema during the Franco dictatorship, the book focuses principally on developments in the last two decades. Acknowledging the sheer breadth and diversity of Spanish film production since the ending of the regime and the transition to democracy, this study includes chapters on Spanish film's obsessive concern with the past on popular genre film (including the comedy and the thriller), on representations of gender and sexuality and the work of women film professionals, both behind and in front of the camera, as well as on film produced in Spain's autonomous communities, particularly in Catalonia and the Basque Country.