Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema

Sally Faulkner

• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781855660984
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846152764
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

New readings of literary and cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. In her survey of the history of Spanish cinema in the dictatorship and democratic periods, the author argues that studies of adaptations must simultaneously address questions of 'text' - formal issues central to the study of film and literature - and 'context' - ideological concerns crucial to late twentieth-century Spain. She examines three themes of particular importance to contemporary Spanish culture - the recuperation of history, the negotiation of the rural and the urban, and the representation of gender - and considers the related stylistic issues of the affinities between cinematic expression and nostalgia, the city and phallocentrism. The study concludes with an analysis of the formal question of the narrator in film and literature, through an assessment of Buñuel's previously unacknowledged stylistic debt to Galdós as manifested in his adaptations of Nazarín/ and Tristana. SALLY FAULKNER is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Table of contents

• FRONTCOVER
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• 1. Introduction: Texts and Contexts
• 2. Post-Franco Films of the Post-War Novel: Aesthetics and History
• La colmena (Camus 1982): In Search of Authenticity
• Time of Silence, Time of Protest: Tiempo de silencio (Aranda 1986)
• 3. Rural and Urban Spaces: Violence and Nostalgia in the Country and the City
• Rural Space
• Pascual Duarte (Franco 1976): Violence in Absolute Space
• Los santos inocentes (Camus 1984): Nostalgia for Absolute Space
• Urban Space
• Historias del Kronen (Armendáriz 1995): Violence in Abstract Space
• Carícies (Pons 1998): Beyond Abstract Space
• 4. Re-vising the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Gender and the Adaptations of Fortunata y Jacinta and La Regenta
• Clipped Wings: Film and Television Adaptations of Fortunata y Jacinta
• Fortunata y Jacinta (Fons 1970)
• Fortunata y Jacinta (Camus 1980)
• The Government of the Gaze: Film and Television Adaptations of La Regenta
• La Regenta (Gonzalo Suárez 1974)
• La Regenta (Méndez Leite 1995)
• 5. Artful Relation: Buñuel’s Debt to Galdós
• Nazarín (Buñuel 1958): From Uncertainty to Censure
• Tristana (Buñuel 1970): From Ambiguity to Sabotage
• 6. Conclusion: Cinema and History
• FILMOGRAPHY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX