Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain (A Centennial Book)
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In this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder examines the films of such key directors as Buuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodvar, 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 internationalizing of the "national cinema" concept and her application of contemporary critical theoryespecially insights from feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and discourse theorydistinguish Blood Cinema from previous film histories. The author also makes use of a variety of sources within Spain such as the commentaries on Spanish character and culture by Unamunov and others, the contemporary debate over the restructuring of Spanish television. Kinder's book moves Spanish cinema into the mainstream of film studies by demonstrating that a knowledge of its history alters and enriches our understanding of world cinema.
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"This is the most complete, in-depth, sophisticated study of Spanish cinema available in any language." (Marvin D'Lugo, author of The Films of Carlos Saura)
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Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain (A Centennial Book)
Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain (A Centennial Book),Marsha Kinder,University of California Press,0520081579,Cinema/Film: Book,Ethnological Aspects Of Performing Arts,Film & Video - General,Film And Society,Motion pictures,National characteristics, Span,National characteristics, Spanish, in motion pictures,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Spain
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