The Supernatural Sublime - The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Hispanisms
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez • Claudia Schaefer
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards
Pages:	318
ISBN-13:	978-1-4962-1424-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General
LSN:	1-4962-1424-2
Barcode:	9781496214249

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