Description
Book SynopsisExamines the films of such key directors as Bunuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodovar, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, exploring how they manifest political and cultural tensions related to the production of Spanish national identity within a changing global context.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond the Boundaries of a National Cinema
PART I. TRANSCULTURAL REINSCRIPTION
I . The Ideological Reinscription of Neorealist and Hollywood
Conventions in Spanish Cinema of the 1950s: Falangist Neorealism
in Surcos
2. The Subversive Reinscription of Melodrama in Muerte de un ciclista
3. Breaking New Ground in Los golfos, El cochecito, and El esplritu
de Ia colmena
PART II. THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE
SPANISH OEDIPAL NARRATIVE
4. Sacrifice and Massacre: On the Cultural Specificity of Violence
5. The Spanish Oedipal Narrative and Its Subversion
PART III. EXILE AND DIASPORA
6. Exile and Ideological Reinscription: The Unique Case of
Luis Bufiuel
7. The Economics of Exile: Borau On the Line of the
National/International Interface
PART IV. MICRO- AND MACROREGIONALISM
8. Micro- and Macroregionalism in Catalan Cinema, European
Coproductions, and Global Television
Epilogue: El Sol Also Rises
Notes
Bibliography
Index
