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Spanish Horror Film / Antonio Lázaro-Reboll.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Traditions in World Cinema : TWCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 40 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748636389
  • 9780748636402
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6 L38 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Spanish Horror Boom: 1968–75 -- 2. Spanish Hall of Monsters in the 1960s and early 1970s -- 3. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Horrormeister: Historias para no dormir (1966–8), La residencia (1969) and ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? (1976) -- 4. The Horror Cycle of Eloy de la Iglesia (1971–3) -- 5. Devoted to Horror: From Terror Fantastic (1971–3) to 2000maniacos (1989–present) -- 6. Post-1975 Horror Production -- 7. Transnational Horror Auteurs: Nacho Cerdà, Jaume Balagueró and Guillermo del Toro -- Conclusion -- Select Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Spanish Horror Film is the first in-depth exploration of the genre in Spain from the 'horror boom' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the most recent production in the current renaissance of Spanish genre cinema, through a study of its production, circulation, regulation and consumption. The examination of this rich cinematic tradition is firmly located in relation to broader historical and cultural shifts in recent Spanish history and as an important part of the European horror film tradition and the global culture of psychotronia.Key Features The first critical study on Spanish horror film to be published in English.An overview of key directors, cycles and representative films as well as of more obscure and neglected horror production.A detailed analysis of the work of directors such as Jesús Franco, Amando de Ossorio, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Eloy de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró, Nacho Cerdá and Guillermo del Toro's Spanish" films.A focus on critical and cult contexts of reception in Spain, Great Britain and the USA."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The Spanish Horror Boom: 1968–75 -- 2. Spanish Hall of Monsters in the 1960s and early 1970s -- 3. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Horrormeister: Historias para no dormir (1966–8), La residencia (1969) and ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? (1976) -- 4. The Horror Cycle of Eloy de la Iglesia (1971–3) -- 5. Devoted to Horror: From Terror Fantastic (1971–3) to 2000maniacos (1989–present) -- 6. Post-1975 Horror Production -- 7. Transnational Horror Auteurs: Nacho Cerdà, Jaume Balagueró and Guillermo del Toro -- Conclusion -- Select Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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Spanish Horror Film is the first in-depth exploration of the genre in Spain from the 'horror boom' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the most recent production in the current renaissance of Spanish genre cinema, through a study of its production, circulation, regulation and consumption. The examination of this rich cinematic tradition is firmly located in relation to broader historical and cultural shifts in recent Spanish history and as an important part of the European horror film tradition and the global culture of psychotronia.Key Features The first critical study on Spanish horror film to be published in English.An overview of key directors, cycles and representative films as well as of more obscure and neglected horror production.A detailed analysis of the work of directors such as Jesús Franco, Amando de Ossorio, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Eloy de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró, Nacho Cerdá and Guillermo del Toro's Spanish" films.A focus on critical and cult contexts of reception in Spain, Great Britain and the USA."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)