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Spanish Film Under Franco / Virginia Higginbotham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292761469
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430946
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.S
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Prewar Spanish Film -- 2. Censorship: 1939-1975 -- 3. Early Postwar Film: 1939—1959 -- 4. Juan Antonio Bardem -- 5. Luis Garcia Berlanga -- 6. Late Postwar Years: 1960—1975 -- 7. Luis Bunuel and His Influence -- 8. Carlos Saura -- 9. Other Important Directors -- 10. Transition: Dictatorship to Democracy, 1975-1980 -- 11. Conclusion: Franco's Legacy -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their study of Spanish cinema. After a brief overview of Spanish film before Franco, the author proceeds to a discussion of censorship as practiced by the Franco regime. The response of directors to censorship—the “franquista aesthetic,” or “aesthetic of repression,” with its highly metaphorical, oblique style—is explored in the works of Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, and other important directors. Virginia Higginbotham combines historical perspective with detailed critical analysis and interpretation of many famous Franco-era films. She shows how directors managed to evade the censors and raise public awareness of issues relating to the Spanish Civil War and the repressions of the Franco regime. Film has always performed an educational function in Spain, reaching masses of poor and uneducated citizens. And sometimes, as this study also reveals, Spanish film has been ignored when the questions it raised became too painful or demanding. The author concludes with a look at post-Franco cinema and the directions it has taken. For anyone interested in modern Spanish film, this book will be essential reading.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Prewar Spanish Film -- 2. Censorship: 1939-1975 -- 3. Early Postwar Film: 1939—1959 -- 4. Juan Antonio Bardem -- 5. Luis Garcia Berlanga -- 6. Late Postwar Years: 1960—1975 -- 7. Luis Bunuel and His Influence -- 8. Carlos Saura -- 9. Other Important Directors -- 10. Transition: Dictatorship to Democracy, 1975-1980 -- 11. Conclusion: Franco's Legacy -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their study of Spanish cinema. After a brief overview of Spanish film before Franco, the author proceeds to a discussion of censorship as practiced by the Franco regime. The response of directors to censorship—the “franquista aesthetic,” or “aesthetic of repression,” with its highly metaphorical, oblique style—is explored in the works of Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, and other important directors. Virginia Higginbotham combines historical perspective with detailed critical analysis and interpretation of many famous Franco-era films. She shows how directors managed to evade the censors and raise public awareness of issues relating to the Spanish Civil War and the repressions of the Franco regime. Film has always performed an educational function in Spain, reaching masses of poor and uneducated citizens. And sometimes, as this study also reveals, Spanish film has been ignored when the questions it raised became too painful or demanding. The author concludes with a look at post-Franco cinema and the directions it has taken. For anyone interested in modern Spanish film, this book will be essential reading.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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