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

Forward: 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

  1. Benito Perojo’s La verbena de la Paloma

    Román Gubern

  2. The Referential Effect: Writing the Image of the War

    Jenaro Talens

  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

  4. Vida en Sombras: The Recusado’s Shadow in Spanish Postwar Cinema

    Jesús González-Requena

  5. Redundancy and Passion: Juan de Orduña and CIFESA

    Francisco Llinás

  6. Seeing beyond the Delicate: Luis García-Berlanda’s Novio a la vista

    Stacy N. Beckwith

  7. Between History and Dream: Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena

    Santos Zunzunegui

    Part III. The First Steps of Transition

  8. Pastiche and Deformation of History in José-Luis Garci’s Asignatura pendiente

    Oscar Pereira

  9. Eyeing Our Collections: Selecting Images, Juxtaposing Fragments, and Exposing Conventions in the Films of Bigas Luna

    Ann Marie Stock

  10. Mother Country, Fatherland: The Uncanny Spain of Manuel Gutiérrez-Aragón

    Teresa Vilarós

  11. Images of War: Hunting the Metaphor

    Antonio Monegal

  12. Homosexuality, Regionalism, and Mass Culture: Eloy de la Iglesia’s Cinema of Transition

    Paul Julian Smith

    Part IV. The Socialist Decade

  13. Sexual Revolution against the State? José Luis García Sánchez’s Pasodoble

    Ricardo Roque-Baldovinos

  14. A Search for Identity: Francisco Regueiro’s Padre nuestro

    Andrés Moreno

  15. What Did I Do to Deserve This? The “Mother” in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar

    Lesley Heins Walker

  16. Vicente Aranda’s Amantes: History as Cultural Style in Spanish Cinema

    Marvin D’Lugo

    Part V. Representations: Reshaping the Margins

  17. Aimez-vous la representation? Notes on the Cinema of Pere Portabella and on Informe general

    Casimiro Torreiro

  18. Scripting a Social Imaginary: Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema

    Kathleen M. Vernon