Spanish Cinema Against Itself: Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy

Spanish Cinema against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s--with the work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, experimentalist José Val de Omar, and militant documentary filmmaker Carlos Velo--through to the contemporary period. Framed by film theory this book traces the works of understudied and non-canonical Spanish filmmakers, producers, and film collectives to open up alternate, more cosmopolitan and philosophical spaces for film discussion. In an age of the post-national and the postcinematic, Steven Marsh's work challenges conventional historiographical discourse, the concept of national cinema, and questions of form in cinematic practice.

Author: Steven Marsh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780253046314

About the Author

Steven Marsh is Professor of Spanish Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of Popular Spanish Film Under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State and editor (with Parvati Nair) of Gender and Spanish Cinema.