100 Years of Spanish Cinema

Inmaculada Alvarez, Rosana Blanco-Cano, Anitra Grisales, Alejandra Osorio, Alejandra Sánchez, Tatjana Pavlović

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781405184199
  9781405184205
• eBook ISBN:
  9781444304800
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

100 Years of Spanish Cinema provides an in-depth look at the most important movements, films, and directors of twentieth-century Spain from the silent era to the present day.

• A glossary of film terms provides definitions of essential technical, aesthetic, and historical terms
• Features a visual portfolio illustrating key points of many of the films analyzed
• Includes a clear, concise timeline to help students quickly place films and genres in Spain's political, economical, and historical contexts
• Discusses over 20 films including Amor Que Mata, Un Chien Andalou, Viridana, El Verdugo, El Crimen de Cuenca, and  Pepi, Luci, Born

Table of contents

• Figures
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1 Silent Cinema and its Pioneers (1906–1930)
• 1 El ciego de aldea (Ángel García Cardona, 1906)
• 2 Amor que mata (Fructuós Gelabert, 1909)
• 3 Don Pedro el Cruel (Ricardo Baños, Albert Marro, 1911)
• 4 La aldea maldita (Florián Rey, 1930)
• 2 Surrealism (1924–1930) and the Advent of Sound (the Second Republic: 1931–1936)
• 1 Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
• 2 Tierra sin pan (Luis Buñuel, 1933)
• 3 Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
• 1 Suspiros de España (Benito Perojo, 1938)
• 2 Canciones para después de una guerra (Basilio Martín Patino, 1971)
• 4 The Autarky: Papier-Mâché Cinema (1939–1950)
• 1 Raza (José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, 1941)
• 2 Locura de amor (Juan de Orduña, 1948)
• 5 Neorealism: Status Quo and Dissent (1951–1961)
• 1 El cochecito (Marco Ferreri, 1960)
• 2 Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
• 6 The “Liberal” Dictatorship and its Agony (1962–1975)
• 1 El verdugo (Luis García Berlanga, 1963)
• 2 El jardín de las delicias (Carlos Saura, 1970)
• 7 Cinema of the Transition: The Period of Disenchantment (1975–1979)
• 1 El desencanto (Jaime Chávarri, 1976)
• 2 El crimen de Cuenca (Pilar Miró, 1979)
• 8 Post-Franco Spain: The Pedro Almodóvar Phenomenon (1980–1991)
• 1 Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (Pedro Almodóvar, 1980)
• 2 ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! (Pedro Almodóvar, 1984)
• 9 Contemporary Trends (1992 to the Present)
• 1 Vacas (Julio Medem, 1992)
• 2 Carícies (Ventura Pons, 1997)
• 3 Flores de otro mundo (Icíar Bollaín, 1999)
• 4 The Secret Life of Words (La vida secreta de las palabras) (Isabel Coixet, 2005)
• Glossary of Film Terms
• Historical Chronology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index