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Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. (Hardcover)
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Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 13
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In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number
of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation,
that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to
reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General
Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major
issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of
the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial
development of Basque cinema vis-a-vis the films produced in the
rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with
violence, thought of as an inescapable native trait, in a large
amount of post-dictatorial films; 3) the newfound insatiable
appetite for cinematic travelling, for going out and coming in
through all possible variations of the road and travel movie
genres; 4) and the vindication of the mother qua a benign emblem of
the land and its people, of the nation. There is a narrative in
Spanish cinema, taken as a collective discourse, which ties
together these four cinematic topoi and proposes a nation whose
specificity must be precisely its impurity-difference within as
essence-a hybrid nation located in temporal and spatial rendezvous
of past and present, tradition and novelty, centre and margin,
inside and outside, on and beyond.
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