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.

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

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

1. Vida en Sombras: The Recusado’s Shadow in Spanish Postwar Cinema
   Jesús González-Requena
2. Redundancy and Passion: Juan de Orduña and CIFESA
   Francisco Llinás
3. Seeing beyond the Delicate: Luis García-Berlanda’s Novio a la vista
   Stacy N. Beckwith
4. Between History and Dream: Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena
   Santos Zunzunegui

Part III. The First Steps of Transition

1. Pastiche and Deformation of History in José-Luis Garci’s Asignatura pendiente
   Oscar Pereira
2. Eyeing Our Collections: Selecting Images, Juxtaposing Fragments, and Exposing Conventions in the Films of Bigas Luna
   Ann Marie Stock
3. Mother Country, Fatherland: The Uncanny Spain of Manuel Gutiérrez-Aragón
   Teresa Vilarós
4. Images of War: Hunting the Metaphor
   Antonio Monegal
5. Homosexuality, Regionalism, and Mass Culture: Eloy de la Iglesia’s Cinema of Transition
   Paul Julian Smith

Part IV. The Socialist Decade

1. Sexual Revolution against the State? José Luis García Sánchez’s Pasodoble
   Ricardo Roque-Baldovinos
2. A Search for Identity: Francisco Regueiro’s Padre nuestro
   Andrés Moreno
3. What Did I Do to Deserve This? The “Mother” in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar
   Lesley Heins Walker
4. Vicente Aranda’s Amantes: History as Cultural Style in Spanish Cinema
   Marvin D’Lugo

Part V. Representations: Reshaping the Margins

1. Aimez-vous la representation? Notes on the Cinema of Pere Portabella and on Informe general
   Casimiro Torreiro
2. Scripting a Social Imaginary: Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema
   Kathleen M. Vernon