Blood Cinema The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain

Name: Blood Cinema The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain
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ISBN: 9780520081574

ISBN-10: 0520081579

ISBN-13: 9780520081574

Edition: 1993

Authors: Marsha Kinder

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In this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder examines the films of such key directors as Buntilde;uel, Saura, Erice, and Almodoacute;var, 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. Concentrated on the decades from the 1950s to the 1990s, Kinder's work is broadly historical but essentially conceptual, moving backward and forward in time, drawing examples from earlier films and from works of art and literature, and providing close readings of a wide range of texts. Her questioning and…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/6/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Beyond the Boundaries of a National Cinema



The Ideological Reinscription of Neorealist and Hollywood Conventions in Spanish Cinema of the 1950s: Falangist Neorealism in Surcos



The Subversive Reinscription of Melodrama in Muerte de un ciclista



Breaking New Ground in Los golfos, El cochecito, and El espiritu de la colmeno



Sacrifice and Massacre: On the Cultural Specificity of Violence



The Spanish Oedipal Narrative and Its Subversion



Exile and Ideological Reinscription: The Unique Case of Luis Bunuel



The Economics of Exile: Borau On the Line of the National/International Interface



Micro- and Macroregionalism in Catalan Cinema, European Coproductions, and Global Television


Epilogue: El Sol Also Rises


Notes


Bibliography


Index