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Featuring Post-National Spain: Film Essays (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures LUP)
Andrés Zamora
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Description for Featuring Post-National Spain: Film Essays (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures LUP)
Hardcover. The book explores post-Franco Spanish film's tacit or explicit, but always resolute, essays from 1975 to 2000 to make over Spain's national, in fact post-national, identity. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJP; APF; DNF; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis-à-vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought ... Read more
In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis-à-vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781383148
SKU
V9781781383148
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About Andrés Zamora
Andrés Zamora is Associate Professor of Spanish and European Studies at Vanderbilt University
Reviews for Featuring Post-National Spain: Film Essays (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures LUP)
Reviews 'Zamora's insightful observations and reflections, bolstered by illustrations, further understanding of how many recent Spanish fiction and nonfiction features have fruitfully undertaken the task of “essaying”—his term—the post-Franco nation. The thorough scholarly apparatus includes an extensive bibliography, and the volume was meticulously produced.' D West, CHOICE 'Expansive in scope and analytically incisive, Featuring Post-National Spain makes a valuable ... Read more