Literary adaptations in spanish cinema
Editorial TAMESIS
España peninsular
- Editorial TAMESIS
- ISBN13 9781855660984
- ISBN10 1855660989
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 198
- Año de Edición 2004
- Encuadernación Tela
Literary adaptations in spanish cinema
Editorial TAMESIS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
New readings of literary and cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. In her survey of the history of Spanish cinema in the dictatorship and democratic periods, the author argues that studies of adaptations must simultaneously address questions of 'text' - formal issues central to the study of film and literature - and 'context' - ideological concerns crucial to late twentieth-century Spain. She examines three themes of particular importance to contemporary Spanish culture - the recuperation of history, the negotiation of the rural and the urban, and the representation of gender - and considers the related stylistic issues of the affinities between cinematic expression and nostalgia, the city and phallocentrism. The study concludes with an analysis of the formal question of the narrator in film and literature, through an assessment of Buñuel's previously unacknowledged stylistic debt to Galdós as manifested in his adaptations of Nazarín and Tristana. SALLY FAULKNER is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter.