20th century spanish culture
20th century spanish film history
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erice
exile
feminism
film criticism
film history
film studies
global context
hollywood
marxism
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movies
national cinema
neorealist
oedipal
oedipus complex
political tensions
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spanish cinema
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- ISBN 9780520081574
- Weight: 907g
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder examines the films of such key directors as Bunuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodovar, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, exploring how they manifest political and cultural tensions related to the production of Spanish national identity within a changing global context. Concentrated on the decades from the 1950s to the 1990s, Kinder's work is broadly historical but essentially conceptual, moving backward and forward in time, drawing examples from earlier films and from works of art and literature, and providing close readings of a wide range of texts. Her questioning and internationalizing of the 'national cinema' concept and her application of contemporary critical theory - especially insights from feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and discourse theory - distinguish "Blood Cinema" from previous film histories. The author also makes use of a variety of sources within Spain such as the commentaries on Spanish character and culture by Unamunov and others, the contemporary debate over the restructuring of Spanish television.
Kinder's book moves Spanish cinema into the mainstream of film studies by demonstrating that a knowledge of its history alters and enriches our understanding of world cinema. The interactive CD-ROM is available from CINE-DISCS, 2021 Holly Hill Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90068, (213) 876-7678.
Marsha Kinder is Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. Her most recent books are Playing With Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games (California, 1991) and Remapping the Post-Franco Cinema, a special issue of Quarterly Review of Film and Video (1991).
