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Spanish Cinema The Auteurist Tradition

Evans, Peter
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198184140
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
485 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
372

Redaktør
Evans, Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Evans is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Spanish Cinema The Auteurist Tradition

Evans, Peter
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk
Evans, Peter
Heftet / 1999 / Engelsk
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An important collection of essays on Spanish cinema by leading Hispanic film critics ... this is a collection that will serve as an extremely useful resource for researchers into Spanish film.

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Peter William Evans has assembled a fascinating guide to the achievements of twenty Spanish film-makers over a period of forty years, from the mid-1950s to 1995 ... This book will undoubtedly become a key text for students and specialists in Spanish film.

B. W. Ife, Times Literary Supplement

Twenty excellent studies of films ... covering significant landmarks of Spanish cinema over the period 1952-1995 ... For the reader interested in one particular film or director, the book is a treat. Expert knowledge of cinema in general and of a director's work in particular combines with a sensitivity to Spanish history, society and politics, resulting in in-depth contextualized analyses of films. A random sample of the essays points to the originality, variety and often exceptional quality of the critical readings ... The choice of directors and films ensures a high level of critical engagement, especially with reference to controversial topics.

Modern Language Review

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.
Les mer
These readings of films by key directors working in the art-movie/"auteurist" field, aims to strike a balance between representative films, directors and periods. Each chapter concentrates on one film, taking into account film as an art form and the socio-historical contexts in which it was made.
Les mer
An important collection of essays on Spanish cinema by leading Hispanic film critics ... this is a collection that will serve as an extremely useful resource for researchers into Spanish film.
`Peter William Evans has assembled a fascinating guide to the achievements of twenty Spanish film-makers over a period of forty years, from the mid-1950s to 1995 ... This book will undoubtedly become a key text for students and specialists in Spanish film.' B.W.Ife, TLS, 21 July 2000 `twenty excellent studies of films ... covering significant landmarks of Spanish cinema over the period 1952-1995. ... For the reader interested in one particular film or director, the book is a treat. Expert knowledge of cinema in general and of a director's work in particular combines with a sensitivity to Spanish history, society and politics, resulting in in-depth contextualized analyses of films. A random sample of the essays points to the originality, variety and often exceptional quality of the critical readings. ... The choice of directors and films ensures a high level of critical engagement, especially with reference to controversial topics.' Maria Donapetry, MLR 96.I, 2001
Les mer
Focuses upon the key films of leading directors working in the art-movie or 'auteurist' tradition in Spanish cinema from 1952 to the present day
Peter Evans is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Focuses upon the key films of leading directors working in the art-movie or 'auteurist' tradition in Spanish cinema from 1952 to the present day

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An important collection of essays on Spanish cinema by leading Hispanic film critics ... this is a collection that will serve as an extremely useful resource for researchers into Spanish film.

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Peter William Evans has assembled a fascinating guide to the achievements of twenty Spanish film-makers over a period of forty years, from the mid-1950s to 1995 ... This book will undoubtedly become a key text for students and specialists in Spanish film.

B. W. Ife, Times Literary Supplement

Twenty excellent studies of films ... covering significant landmarks of Spanish cinema over the period 1952-1995 ... For the reader interested in one particular film or director, the book is a treat. Expert knowledge of cinema in general and of a director's work in particular combines with a sensitivity to Spanish history, society and politics, resulting in in-depth contextualized analyses of films. A random sample of the essays points to the originality, variety and often exceptional quality of the critical readings ... The choice of directors and films ensures a high level of critical engagement, especially with reference to controversial topics.

Modern Language Review

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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These readings of films by key directors working in the art-movie/"auteurist" field, aims to strike a balance between representative films, directors and periods. Each chapter concentrates on one film, taking into account film as an art form and the socio-historical contexts in which it was made.
Les mer
An important collection of essays on Spanish cinema by leading Hispanic film critics ... this is a collection that will serve as an extremely useful resource for researchers into Spanish film.
`Peter William Evans has assembled a fascinating guide to the achievements of twenty Spanish film-makers over a period of forty years, from the mid-1950s to 1995 ... This book will undoubtedly become a key text for students and specialists in Spanish film.' B.W.Ife, TLS, 21 July 2000 `twenty excellent studies of films ... covering significant landmarks of Spanish cinema over the period 1952-1995. ... For the reader interested in one particular film or director, the book is a treat. Expert knowledge of cinema in general and of a director's work in particular combines with a sensitivity to Spanish history, society and politics, resulting in in-depth contextualized analyses of films. A random sample of the essays points to the originality, variety and often exceptional quality of the critical readings. ... The choice of directors and films ensures a high level of critical engagement, especially with reference to controversial topics.' Maria Donapetry, MLR 96.I, 2001
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Focuses upon the key films of leading directors working in the art-movie or 'auteurist' tradition in Spanish cinema from 1952 to the present day
Peter Evans is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Focuses upon the key films of leading directors working in the art-movie or 'auteurist' tradition in Spanish cinema from 1952 to the present day

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198184140
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
485 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
137 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
372

Redaktør
Evans, Peter

Om bidragsyterne

Peter Evans is Professor of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

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