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Author_Ann Davies
Basque
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Daniel Calparsoro
director
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Hollywood cinema
horror film
national cinema
social realist films
Spanish filmmaking
violence
war film
Product details
- ISBN 9780719073649
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has made a crucial contribution to contemporary Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as works of crude violence by those lamenting a 'lost golden age' of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoro’s films in fact reveal a more complex interaction with trends and traditions in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema. This book is the first full-length study of the director’s work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror. It offers an in-depth film-by-film analysis while simultaneously exploring the director’s position in the contemporary Spanish context, the tension between directors and critics and the question of national cinema in an area – the Basque Country – of heightened national and regional sensitivities.
Ann Davies is Chair of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling
