Religion and Spanish Film: Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors
Edition: Paperback edition
Publisher: University of Michigan Press; The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780472052455
Notes: Besides paper, also available in hardcover and as an eBook.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: God and the Spanish director; title: Luis Buñuel and the reinvention of Catholicism; title: Looking back in anger: iconoclastic and anticlerical roots; title: Catholicism reinvented in later films; title: The religious genre and its discontents in Francoist Spain; title: History of the Christian religious genre film; title: Preaching to the converted: missionaries and apparitions of Mary; title: Lives of the saints as measures of holiness and citizenship; title: New genres and new wave directors of the Sixties and Seventies; title: Breaking boundaries: post-Franco and contemporary directors; title: Variations on a theme of national identity: reclaiming St. Teresa; title: Pedro Almodóvar and the gathering storm; title: Postmodern skepticism versus the need to believe; title: Conclusion: religion and the Spanish habitus