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Book SynopsisIn Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain’s modernization processes.
Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, nun films, which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Pérez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. Confessional Cinema offers a provocative and origina
Trade Review
‘In this ground breaking study, Pérez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features…. Highly recommended.’ -- D. West * Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018 *
‘Confessional Cinema is bound to be a most influential work and a fundamental referent in Spanish cultural and film studies for many years to come.’ -- Jorge Mari * Europe Now issue 16 published on April 17, 2018 *
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Film, Religion, and the Desarrollismo periodChapter 1: Lighting Sainthood in the Time of Technocracy Chapter 2: Praying for Development in Post-Vatican II Comedies Chapter 3: Gender and Modernization in Nun Films Chapter 4: Narratives of Suspicion: Religion in the Nuevo Cine Espanol Conclusion Notes Works Cited Filmography
