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Spanish Cinema

	Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Film-makers and Films by Rafael de Espana (Editor) Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Films'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Films'
	Behind the Spanish Lens : Spanish Cinema Under Fascism and Democracy by Peter Besas Since the death of Generalisimo Francisco Franco, Spanish culture has undergone significant change. And in Spain, as everywhere, social changes are portrayed most dramatically in the movies. Peter Besas's Behind the Spanish Lens : Spanish Cinema under Fascism and Democracy traces the work of those culturally powerful filmmakers who struggled through the years of Fascist rule and found new voices and a worldwide audience under the Socialist government that followed Franco's death. Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Behind the Spanish Lens'
	Spanish Cinema Peter Evans (Editor) The liveliness and importance of Spanish cinema is increasingly being recognised outside Spain, in film festivals, television exposure, and courses in Institutions of Higher Education. To a large extent this is "auteur" or art-movie cinema. This study concentrates upon that tradition, focusing upon the key films in a period stretching from 1952 to the present day. The term "auteur" has lately fallen into disrepute. The idea - most actively promoted by "Cahiers du Cinema" in the late 1950s and early 1960s - that the director is to a film what an author is to a poem, play or novel, has been subjected to much criticism since structuralist and post-structuralist attacks on the author. But even in pre-"death of the author" days film raised its own specific problems about authorship. Nevertheless, since the initial excitement of French critical theory's provocative assault on conventional notions of authorship, and taking into account specific problems related to the collaborative nature of film-making, attempts have recently been made to reclaim some of the ground lost by the author in these critical and theoretical battles. This volume offers lively readings of films by key directors working to a large extent in the art-movie/"auteurist" field, and aims to strike a balance between representative films, directors and periods. Each chapter concentrates on a single film, discussing it in accessible critical language that takes account both of the distinctiveness of film as an art form and of the material and socio-historical contexts in which each film was made. Buy the book  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Spanish Cinema'
	Cain on Screen : Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Thomas G. Deveny This work analyzes contemporary Spanish cinema, focusing on one of its fundamental recurring themes - the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. The films analyzed manifest a broader phenomenon of Spanish culture known as "cainismo", or a fraternal antagonism within the Spanish society. This study follows chronologically the run-up to the war, and the anti-Franco guerilla movement, the misery and the black markets, "moles" who lived clandestine lives, attempts to relive the past, and the long-standing social divisions in Spanish society as they have been portrayed on screen, including fictional and documentary film. Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Cain on Screen'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Cain on Screen'
	Contemporary Spanish Cinema by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas Offers an analysis of the main trends and issues in Spanish film since the death of Franco in 1975. While taking account of cinema during the Franco dictatorship, the text focuses principally on developments in the since the 1970s. Acknowledging the breadth and diversity of Spanish film production since the ending of the regime and the transition to democracy, this study includes chapters on Spanish film's concern with the past on popular film genres (including the comedy and the thriller), representations of gender and sexuality, and the work of women film professionals, both behind and in front of the camera, as well as film produced in Spain's autonomous communities, particularly in Catalonia and the Basque Country. Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Contemporary Spanish Cinema'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Contemporary Spanish Cinema'
	Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction by Thomas G. Deveny An examination of cinematic versions of post-Civil War narratives that had their debut during three key decades of Spanish cinema (1965-1995). The study begins with an overview of the critical problems of screen adaptation, and offers a global analysis that examines film adaptations of works by 57 authors. These include classics of 20th-century Spanish literature by authors such as Camilo Jose Cela, Miguel Delibes, and Luis Martin Santos, works by more recent best-selling authors Antonio Munoz Molina, Arturo Perez Reverte and Juan Madrid, and many others. Directors like Vicente Aranda, Victor Erice, Mario Camus, and Pilar Miro show how literary material can be transformed into superb cinema. Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Contemporary Spanish Film From Fiction'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Contemporary Spanish Film From Fiction'
	The Great Spanish Films: 1950-1990 by Ronald Schwartz An account of Spain's best and most successful films from 1950 to 1990. Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'The Great Spanish Films'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'The Great Spanish Films'
	Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema (Hispanic Issues , Vol. 16) by Jenaro Talens (Editor), Santos Zunzunegui, Zunzunegui d Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema'
	Vision Machines : Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-93 (Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Culture) by Paul Julian Smith buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Vision Machines'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Vision Machines'
	Spanish Films Under Franco by Higginbotham Discusses censorship under the Franco regime, examines the work of four major directors, and looks at new directions in Spanish film. Buy the book  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Spanish Films under Franco'
	Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema by Susan Martin-Marquez A detailed consideration of women directors working before the Civil War and during Franco's dictatorship, and an exploration the impact of feminism on filmmaking in Spain. Part I focuses on three directors, Rosario Pi, Ana Mariscal and Pilar Miro, whose careers span the history of sound cinema in Spain. The book highlights their struggle to achieve agency within the male-dominated film industry, and draws upon extensive archival research as well as in-depth textual analysis to reveal their negotiation with questions of authorship, female subjectivity and national cinema. Part II explores six films by women and men directors: three each from the Francoist and post-Franco periods that foreground a number of issues of fundamental importance to feminism, from the indoctrination and "performance" of gender, to the fraught effort to reconcile power with sexual pleasure. The Afterword treats the remarkable recent boom in women directors and traces the shift in their work towards the exploration of multiple forms of difference. Buy the book  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema'
	Del Escenario a La Pantalla by Maria Asuncion Gomez Written in Spanish, this book explores the relationship between dramatic texts and their cinematic adaptations. It examines the transposition of form and ideology in film versions of 20th-century plays by writers such as Carlos Arniches, Federico Garcia Lorca and Antonio Buero Vallejo. Buy the book  USA and International orders from amazon.com - 'Del Escenario a la Pantalla'  UK orders from amazon.co.uk - 'Del Escenario a la Pantalla'

Spanish Actors & Directors

Transcript by Virginia Chico. virginia@ibercine.co.uk