Global genres, local films
Subtitle: the transnational dimension of Spanish cinema
By: edited by Beatriz Oria, Elena Oliete-Aldea, and Juan A. Tarancón
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781501302985
Subjects: Motion pictures; History and criticism; Motion pictures and transnationalism
Description: The acute processes of globalisation at the turn of the century have generated an increased interest in exploring the interactions between the so-called global cultural products or trends and their specific local manifestations. Even though cross-cultural connections are becoming more patent in filmic productions in the last decades, cinema per se has always been characterized by its hybrid, transnational, border-crossing nature. From its own inception, Spanish film production was soon tied to the Hollywood film industry for its subsistence, but other film traditions such as those in the Soviet Union, France, Germany and, in particular, Italy also determined either directly or indirectly the development of Spanish cinema. Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema reaches beyond the limits of the film text and analyses and contextualizes the impact of global film trends and genres on Spanish cinema in order to study how they helped articulate specific national challenges from the conflict between liberalism and tradition in the first decades of the 20th century to the management of the contemporary financial crisis. This collection provides the first comprehensive picture of the complex national and supranational forces that have shaped Spanish films, revealing the tensions and the intricate dialogue between cross-cultural aesthetic and narrative models on the one hand, and indigenous traditions on the other, as well as the political and historical contingencies these different expressions responded to
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: questions of transnationalism and genre / Elena Oliete-Aldea, Beatriz Oria and Juan A. Tarancón; title: Rethinking Spanishness: the soft edges of early cinema. The tuneful 1930s: Spanish musicals in a global context; title: Valeria Camporesi; title: Historical films during the first years of the Franco regime and their transnational models / Vicente Jose Benet; title: Realism, social conflict and the rise of crime cinema in Francoist Spain / Juan Tarancón; title: Luis Lucia's Lola la piconera (1951): hybridity, politics, entertainment / Federico Bonaddio; title: Nothing ever happens: Juan Antonio Bardem and the resignification of Hollywood melodrama (1954-1963) / Daniel Mourenza; title: Broadening perspectives: crossing borders, crossing genres. Carlos Saura's Stress es tres, tres (1968): a new spanish cinema with French and American influences? / Arnaud Duprat de Montero; title: Violence, style and politics: the influence of the giallo in Spanish cinema of the 1970s / Andy Willis; title: Spanish gothic cinema: the hidden continuities of a hidden genre / Ann Davies; title: Reframing empire: mediating encounters and resistance in Spanish transatlantic cinema since 1992 / Noelia Saenz; title: The transnational dimension of contemporary Spanish road movies / Carmen Indurain Eraso; title: Rural Spain as a transnational space for reflection in Icíar Bollaín's Flores de otro mundo / Chantal Cornut-Gentille d'Arcy; title: Appropriating the global: self-conscious transnationalism. Isn't it bromantic?: new directions in contemporary Spanish comedy / Beatriz Oria; title: Malamadres and Bertomeus: transnational crime film and television / Luis M. García-Mainar; title: Local responses to universal sufferings in Isabel Coixet's transnational melodramas / Hilaria Loyo; title: Transnational contours and representation models in recent films about immigration in Spain. Alberto Elena and Ana Martín Morán; title: Transnational identities in Galician documentary film: Alberte Pagán's BS. as. (2006) and Xurxo Chirro's Vikingland / Iván villarmea Alvarez; title: (In)visible co-productions, Spanish cinema, the market and the media / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega.