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Spanish Cinema - The Auteurist Tradition (Hardcover)
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Spanish Cinema - The Auteurist Tradition (Hardcover)
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The liveliness and importance of Spanish cinema is increasingly
being recognised outside Spain, in film festivals, television
exposure, and courses in Institutions of Higher Education. To a
large extent this is 'auteur' or art-movie cinema. Spanish Cinema
concentrates upon that tradition, focusing upon the key films in a
period stretching from 1952 to the present day. The term 'auteur'
has lately fallen into disrepute. The idea - most actively promoted
by Cahiers du Cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s - that the
director is to a film what an author is to a poem, play or novel,
has been subjected to much criticism since structuralist and
post-structuralist attacks on the author. But even in pre-'death of
the author' days film raised its own specific problems about
authorship. Nevertheless, since the initial excitement of French
critical theory's provocative assault on conventional notions of
authorship, and taking into account specific problems related to
the collaborative nature of film-making, attempts have recently
been made to reclaim some of the ground lost by the author in these
critical and theoretical battles. This volume offers lively
readings of films by key directors working to a large extent in the
art-movie/'auteurist' field, and aims to strike a balance between
representative films, directors and periods. Each chapter
concentrates on a single film, discussing it in accessible critical
language that takes account both of the distinctiveness of film as
an art form and of the material and socio-historical contexts in
which each film was made.
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