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Spanish Cinema

Rob Stone author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:14th Nov '01

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The sexually-charged and colourful nature of many contemporary Spanish films has made them popular world-wide. Rob Stone uses original interview material with Spanish Cinema luminaries to chart its history throughout the turbulent Francoist years and beyond.   

From the surrealist films of Luis Bunuel to the colourful melodramas of Pedro Almodovar, Spain has produced film-makers who have consistently provided a condoning or dissenting eye on Spanish history and culture. Rob Stone charts a history of Spanish Cinema throughout the turbulent Francoist years and beyond.From the surrealist films of Luis Buñuel to the colourful melodramas of Pedro Almodóvar, Spain has produced a wealth of exciting and distinctive film-makers who have consistently provided a condoning or dissenting eye on Spanish history and culture. For modern cinema-goers, it has often been the sexually-charged and colourful nature of many contemporary Spanish films, which has made them popular world-wide and led directors and stars such as Almodóvar, Banderas and Penélope Cruz to be welcomed by Hollywood. Using original interview material with Spanish Cinema luminaries such as Carlos Saura, Julio Medem, Imanol Uribe and Elías Querejeta, Rob Stone charts a history of Spanish Cinema throughout the turbulent Francoist years and beyond. The book aims to provide a broad introduction to  Spanish Cinema.

Rob Stone's 'Spanish Cinema' is a treasure trove of aficionados and novices alike. It leaves you impatient to seek out hundreds of rare gems and revisit many more familiar classics from Almodovar to Saura, Bunuel to Medem. Stone has plenty to say about Spanish history and society too. Artists and critics, pleasure and politics: it's all there in the mix. Tom Charity, Time Out

ISBN: 9780582437159

Dimensions: 157mm x 234mm x 12mm

Weight: 651g

232 pages