Description
Book SynopsisStudents and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema
Trade ReviewThe research is rich in specifics, and makes abundantly clear why the conflict presents a particularly fruitful subject of analysis in relation to these issues.
In one of Archibald's aforementioned first-hand interviews, Guillermo Del Toro is quoted as saying that "every real event....needs an imaginary re-telling," and The War That Won't Die seems to concur, demonstrating the diverse ways that cinema can contribute meaningfully to debates about the past and its influence on the present.
The War That Won’t Die is a valuable contribution to the growing bibliography devoted to cultural representations of the Spanish Civil War that analyses a broad range of films emerging from a variety of national contexts and historical eras.
The book’s lively and straightforward engagement with ongoing debates about the capacity of the narrative cinema to represent history authentically and responsibly makes it an essential addition to the bibliography on cinematic representations of the Spanish Civil War and on historical film generally.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of illustrations
Introduction: film, history and the Spanish Civil War
1. Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War: For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. The Spanish Civil War in East German Cinema: Fünf Patronenhülsen/Five Cartridges
3. Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War in cinema: ¡Viva La Muerte!/Long Live
Death and L' arbre de Guernica/The Tree of Guernica
4. Film under Franco: La caza/The Hunt and El jardín de
las delicias/The Garden of Delights
5. Re-cycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows
6. No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in cinema
7. Ghosts of the past: El espinazo del Diablo/The Devil’s Backbone
8. A story from the Spanish revolution: Land and Freedom/Tierra y Libertad
9. The search for truth in Soldados de Salamina/Soldiers of Salamina
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
