A Companion to Spanish Cinema

Jo Labanyi editor Tatjana Pavlovic editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:18th Dec '15

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A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives.

  • Presents an insightful and provocative collection of newly commissioned essays and original research by top international scholars from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary and geographical perspectives 
  • Offers a systematic historical, thematic, and theoretical approach to Spanish cinema, unique in the field
  • Combines a thorough and insightful study of a wide spectrum of topics and issues with in-depth textual analysis of specific films
  • Explores Spanish cinema’s cultural, artistic, industrial, theoretical and commercial contexts pre- and post-1975 and the notion of a “national” cinema
  • Canonical directors and stars are examined alongside understudied directors, screenwriters, editors, and secondary actors
  • Presents original research on image and sound; genre; non-fiction film; institutions, audiences and industry; and relations to other media, as well as a theoretically-driven section designed to stimulate innovative research

ISBN: 9781119170136

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm

Weight: 1134g

672 pages