Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema
Ed. Jenaro Talens and Santos Zunzunegui
A discussion of the range and depth of Spanish national cinema through a close reading of films from the Republican period, under Franco, in the transition period, and, more recently, under socialism.
Table of Contents
Foreward
A Land Bred on Movies
Tom Conley
Introduction
History as Narration: Rethinking Film History from Spanish Cinema
Jenaro Talens and Santos Zunzunegui
Part I. Sampling the Difference: The Thirties
Chapter 1
Benito Perojo’s La verbena de la Paloma
Román Gubern
Chapter 2
The Referential Effect: Writing the Image of the War
Jenaro Talens
Chapter 3
The Brigadier’s Crusade: Florián Rey’s Carmen, la de Triana
Juan-Miguel Company-Ramón
Part II. The Long and Winding Road: Spanish Cinema under Franco
Chapter 4
Vida en Sombras: The Recusado’s Shadow in Spanish Postwar Cinema
Jesús González-Requena
Chapter 5
Redundancy and Passion: Juan de Orduña and CIFESA
Francisco Llinás
Chapter 6
Seeing beyond the Delicate: Luis García-Berlanda’s Novio a la vista
Stacy N. Beckwith
Chapter 7
Between History and Dream: Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena
Santos Zunzunegui
Part III. The First Steps of Transition
Chapter 8
Pastiche and Deformation of History in José-Luis Garci’s Asignatura pendiente
Oscar Pereira
Chapter 9
Eyeing Our Collections: Selecting Images, Juxtaposing Fragments, and Exposing Conventions in the Films of Bigas Luna
Ann Marie Stock
Chapter 10
Mother Country, Fatherland: The Uncanny Spain of Manuel Gutiérrez-Aragón
Teresa Vilarós
Chapter 11
Images of War: Hunting the Metaphor
Antonio Monegal
Chapter 12
Homosexuality, Regionalism, and Mass Culture: Eloy de la Iglesia’s Cinema of Transition
Paul Julian Smith
Part IV. The Socialist Decade
Chapter 13
Sexual Revolution against the State? José Luis García Sánchez’s Pasodoble
Ricardo Roque-Baldovinos
Chapter 14
A Search for Identity: Francisco Regueiro’s Padre nuestro
Andrés Moreno
Chapter 15
What Did I Do to Deserve This? The “Mother” in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar
Lesley Heins Walker
Chapter 16
Vicente Aranda’s Amantes: History as Cultural Style in Spanish Cinema
Marvin D’Lugo
Part V. Representations: Reshaping the Margins
Chapter 17
Aimez-vous la representation? Notes on the Cinema of Pere Portabella and on Informe general
Casimiro Torreiro
Chapter 18
Scripting a Social Imaginary: Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema
Kathleen M. Vernon