New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema write by Pietsie Feenstra. This book was released on 2011. New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1970s, especially after Franco's death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters who, through their bodies, transgress the traditional borders of social, cultural and sexual identities. Post- Franco cinema exhibits women, homosexuals, transsexuals, and delinquents in new and challenging ways.Under Franco rule, all of these dissident bodies were 'lost'. Here, they reflect new mythological figures, inhabiting an idealised body form (a prototypical body).
Cinema At the Edges
Cinema At the Edges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cinema At the Edges write by Abigail Loxham. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Cinema At the Edges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan José Bigas Luna, and José Luis Guerín are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities. Their films examine the limitations of the cinematic gaze, as the author shows, highlighting the ways in which these directors make recourse to hybridity, contact, and interface to overcome the binary power dynamic previously thought to be a feature of cinema. This book explores their status as solely “Spanish” filmmakers while focusing on their diverse and immensely creative output, offering new readings that engage with current debates in visual culture surrounding psychoanalytic theory, phenomenology, and theories of documentary practice.
Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television
Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television write by Jorge Marí. This book was released on 2017-04-07. Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two decades. It uses a range of critical and theoretical perspectives to examine a broad variety of films and filmmakers, such as works by Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Juan Antonio Bayona, and Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. The volume revolves around a set of fundamental questions: What are the causes for this new Spanish horror-mania? What cultural anxieties and desires, ideological motives and practical interests may be behind such boom? Is there anything specifically "Spanish" about the Spanish horror film and TV productions, any distinctive traits different from Hollywood and other European models that may be associated to the particular political, social, economic or cultural circumstances of contemporary Spain?
Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces
Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces write by Maria C. DiFrancesco. This book was released on 2018-01-03. Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects—particularly, women, immigrants, and queers—possess equal autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within the nation’s largest urban capitals—Madrid and Barcelona—and takes a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these, they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global world.
Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains
Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains write by Amy M. Davis. This book was released on 2014-01-31. Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features. One of PopSugar’s Best Books for Women (2013) From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory. This companion volume to Good Girls and Wicked Witches places these depictions within the context of Hollywood and American popular culture at the time of each film’s release. “Within her idealism and love for the House of the Mouse, it seems Davis is on to something. Whether idealistic or delusional, the Disney she talks about seems to be a thing that’s waiting just around the corner.” —PopMatters
