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The Supernatural Sublime - The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain (Hardcover)
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The Supernatural Sublime - The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain (Hardcover)
Series: New Hispanisms
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The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the
supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the
social and cultural contexts of their production and reception,
their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot,
and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of
emotion without explanation. Deploying the overarching concepts of
the supernatural and the sublime, Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez and
Claudia Schaefer detail the dovetailing of the unnatural and the
experience of limitlessness associated with the sublime. The
Supernatural Sublime embeds the films in the social histories of
twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexico and Spain, both of which
made a forced leap into modernity after historical periods founded
on official ideologies and circumscribed visions of the nation.
Evoking Kant's definition of the experience of the sublime,
Rodriguez-Hernandez and Schaefer concentrate on the unrepresentable
and the contradictory that oppose purported universal truths and
instead offer up illusion, deception, and imagination through
cinema, itself a type of illusion: writing with light.
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