Focusing on Cecilia Bartolomé's impactful contributions to Spanish cinema, this analysis explores her films, television work, and un-filmed scripts through a feminist lens. By employing extensive archival research, it adopts an auteurist approach while addressing censorship and intersectional feminism. The book emphasizes Bartolomé's political activism and her works' socio-political contexts in Spain, particularly during the 1960s-90s, a pivotal era for feminism and democracy. It also includes a groundbreaking interview with the director, enriching the discourse on feminist cinema.
A mother's desperate journey unfolds as she confronts international obstacles to reclaim her children after her husband withholds them. With no support from the Australian government or Lebanese justice system, Sally Faulkner takes matters into her own hands, traveling across the globe with a television crew to fight for her family's reunion. Her poignant story is a testament to her love and determination, dedicated to her children, Lahela and Noah.
A History of Spanish Film explores Spanish film from the beginnings of the industry to the present day by combining some of the most exciting work taking place in film studies with some of the most urgent questions that have preoccupied twentieth-century Spain. It addresses new questions in film studies, like ‘prestige film' and ‘middlebrow cinema', and places these in the context of a country defined by social mobility, including the 1920s industrial boom, the 1940s post-Civil War depression, and the mass movement into the middle classes from the 1960s onwards. Close textual analysis of some 42 films from 1910-2010 provides an especially useful avenue into the study of this cinema for the student. - Uniquely offers extensive close readings of 42 films, which are especially useful to students and teachers of Spanish cinema. - Analyses Spanish silent cinema and films of the Franco era as well as contemporary examples. - Interrogates film's relations with other media, including literature, pictorial art and television. - Explores both ‘auteur' and ‘popular' cinemas. - Establishes ‘prestige' and the ‘middlebrow' as crucial new terms in Spanish cinema studies. - Considers the transnationality of Spanish cinema throughout its century of existence. - Contemporary directors covered in this book include Almodóvar, Bollaín, Díaz Yanes and more.
This collection offers fresh interpretations of 20th-century literary and cinematic works, examining them within their historical contexts. Drawing on cultural theory, the essays reveal new insights and connections, enhancing the understanding of these texts and their significance in the cultural landscape.
