(Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
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(Re)viewing Creative, Critical and Commercial Practices in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Formulated around a number of key thematic concerns—new creative trends; the politics and practices of memory; auteurship, genre, and stardom in a transnational age—this reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012 brings leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds into dialogue with critically and commercially successful practitioners to suggest the need to redefine the parameters of one of the world’s most creative national cinemas. This volume will appeal not only to students and scholars of Spanish film, but also to anyone with an interest in contemporary world cinema.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
Chapter 1: Introduction: How and Why This Book Came into Being / Fernando Canet andDuncan Wheeler
Chapter 2: Spanish Films, 1992-2012: Two Decades of Cinematic Production and Critical Discourse / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 3: From the Past to the Present: Contemporising Trends that Define Spanish Cinema / Fernando Canet
Part 1: Sense and Sensibility: New Forms of Being and Seeing in Recent SpanishCinema
Section introduction / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 4: Back to Africa? Colonial History and Postcolonial Dynamics in Recent Spanish Cinema / Alberto Elena
Chapter 5: The New Ethos of Gay Culture and the Limits of Normalization / Helio San Miguel
Chapter 6: Behind the Enigma Construct: A Certain Trend in Spanish Cinema / Javier Moral
Chapter 7: Reproduction and Rhetorical Processes in the Construction of Reality: En Construccion and La leyenda del tiempo as Case Studies / Fernando Canet
Chapter 8: Art and Ethnography: Miquel Barcelo and Isaki Acosta - Earth Magicians? / Wenceslao Garcia Puchades andMiguel CorellaLacasa
Chapter 9: The Everyday Affect: Isabel Coixet and the Five Senses / Jennie Rothwell
Part 2: Revisiting the Past: The Politics of Memory and the Transition's Cinematic Legacy
Section introduction / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 10: Ana Torrent as Palimpsest in Elio Quiroga's No-Do (The Haunting) / Sarah Wright
Chapter 11: Victimhood in Contemporary Spanish Documentary: The Politics of Agency in Jaime Camino's La vieja memoria and Los ninos de Rusia / Melissa M. Gonzalez
Chapter 12: New Bodies, New Sounds: Rediscovering the Eroticism of the Transition / Alejandro Melero
Chapter 13: Blood and Unfulfilled Promises: Representations of Terrorism and the Transition / Concepcion Cascajosa Virino
Chapter 14: Back to the Future: Repackaging Spain's Troublesome Past for Local and Global Audiences / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 15: Clowns, Goats, Music and the Comedic Violent: Late Francoism and the Transition to Democracy in Alex de la Iglesia's Films / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega
Part 3: Redefining Auteurship, Genre and Stardom in a Transnational Age
Section introduction / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 16: Almodovar in the USA/The USA in Almodovar / Cristina Martinez-Carazo
Chapter 17: Acting and Directing in Spain: Historicizing Stardom and the Author Function / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 18: Sex, Art and Commerce: Penelope Cruz and Isabel Coixet Tackle Philip Roth in Elegy / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 19: Deadly Hybridity: Sexykiller, the Female Serial Killer and the New Spanish Horror Film / Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Chapter 20: Flexing Generic Boundaries: Torrente, [REC] and Adolescent Cinema in Spain / Agustin Rico-Albero
Chapter 21: The Torrente Tetralogy: A Homegrown Saga / Lidia Meras
Chapter 22: Hybrid Models: Auteurism and Genre in Contemporary Spanish Crime Thrillers / Carmen Herrero
Chapter 23: Planet 51 and Spanish Animation: The Risks and Attractions of Globalization / Javier Marzal Felici
Coda: Backstage Pass - Engaging with Practitioners and Cinematic Institutions
Chapter 24: How to Make Arty Films Now / Luis Minarro
Chapter 25: How to Make Commercial Films Now / Mercedes Gamero andDuncan Wheeler
Chapter 26: San Sebastian: A Film Festival of Contrasts / Mar Diestro-Dopido
Chapter 27: The Art Director as Architect: The Reconstruction of Deconstructed Memories / Sandra Martorell
Chapter 28: The Films of Isaki Lacuesta: Hidden Portraits, Multiple Lives / Linda C. Ehrlich
Chapter 29: Color perro que huye: An Audio-visual Prosumer versus the Institutional Cinematic Model / Elena Lopez Riera
Chapter 30: New Tendencies in Contemporary Cinema: Round Table Discussion with Jose Luis Guerin, Isaki Lacuesta and Luis Minarro / Fernando Canet and Duncan Wheeler
Notes on Contributors
Index
Editorial Note
Chapter 1: Introduction: How and Why This Book Came into Being / Fernando Canet andDuncan Wheeler
Chapter 2: Spanish Films, 1992-2012: Two Decades of Cinematic Production and Critical Discourse / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 3: From the Past to the Present: Contemporising Trends that Define Spanish Cinema / Fernando Canet
Part 1: Sense and Sensibility: New Forms of Being and Seeing in Recent SpanishCinema
Section introduction / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 4: Back to Africa? Colonial History and Postcolonial Dynamics in Recent Spanish Cinema / Alberto Elena
Chapter 5: The New Ethos of Gay Culture and the Limits of Normalization / Helio San Miguel
Chapter 6: Behind the Enigma Construct: A Certain Trend in Spanish Cinema / Javier Moral
Chapter 7: Reproduction and Rhetorical Processes in the Construction of Reality: En Construccion and La leyenda del tiempo as Case Studies / Fernando Canet
Chapter 8: Art and Ethnography: Miquel Barcelo and Isaki Acosta - Earth Magicians? / Wenceslao Garcia Puchades andMiguel CorellaLacasa
Chapter 9: The Everyday Affect: Isabel Coixet and the Five Senses / Jennie Rothwell
Part 2: Revisiting the Past: The Politics of Memory and the Transition's Cinematic Legacy
Section introduction / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 10: Ana Torrent as Palimpsest in Elio Quiroga's No-Do (The Haunting) / Sarah Wright
Chapter 11: Victimhood in Contemporary Spanish Documentary: The Politics of Agency in Jaime Camino's La vieja memoria and Los ninos de Rusia / Melissa M. Gonzalez
Chapter 12: New Bodies, New Sounds: Rediscovering the Eroticism of the Transition / Alejandro Melero
Chapter 13: Blood and Unfulfilled Promises: Representations of Terrorism and the Transition / Concepcion Cascajosa Virino
Chapter 14: Back to the Future: Repackaging Spain's Troublesome Past for Local and Global Audiences / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 15: Clowns, Goats, Music and the Comedic Violent: Late Francoism and the Transition to Democracy in Alex de la Iglesia's Films / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega
Part 3: Redefining Auteurship, Genre and Stardom in a Transnational Age
Section introduction / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 16: Almodovar in the USA/The USA in Almodovar / Cristina Martinez-Carazo
Chapter 17: Acting and Directing in Spain: Historicizing Stardom and the Author Function / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 18: Sex, Art and Commerce: Penelope Cruz and Isabel Coixet Tackle Philip Roth in Elegy / Duncan Wheeler
Chapter 19: Deadly Hybridity: Sexykiller, the Female Serial Killer and the New Spanish Horror Film / Shelagh Rowan-Legg
Chapter 20: Flexing Generic Boundaries: Torrente, [REC] and Adolescent Cinema in Spain / Agustin Rico-Albero
Chapter 21: The Torrente Tetralogy: A Homegrown Saga / Lidia Meras
Chapter 22: Hybrid Models: Auteurism and Genre in Contemporary Spanish Crime Thrillers / Carmen Herrero
Chapter 23: Planet 51 and Spanish Animation: The Risks and Attractions of Globalization / Javier Marzal Felici
Coda: Backstage Pass - Engaging with Practitioners and Cinematic Institutions
Chapter 24: How to Make Arty Films Now / Luis Minarro
Chapter 25: How to Make Commercial Films Now / Mercedes Gamero andDuncan Wheeler
Chapter 26: San Sebastian: A Film Festival of Contrasts / Mar Diestro-Dopido
Chapter 27: The Art Director as Architect: The Reconstruction of Deconstructed Memories / Sandra Martorell
Chapter 28: The Films of Isaki Lacuesta: Hidden Portraits, Multiple Lives / Linda C. Ehrlich
Chapter 29: Color perro que huye: An Audio-visual Prosumer versus the Institutional Cinematic Model / Elena Lopez Riera
Chapter 30: New Tendencies in Contemporary Cinema: Round Table Discussion with Jose Luis Guerin, Isaki Lacuesta and Luis Minarro / Fernando Canet and Duncan Wheeler
Notes on Contributors
Index