ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín Jordá
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Barcelona Film School
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Joaquin Jorda
mental health
politics and cinema
Spanish cinema
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- ISBN 9781399513104
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Joaquin Jorda is not only one of the most important directors in Spanish film history, but, through his films, he also connects this history with the ideological and aesthetical movements that took place in European cinema and culture. His influence transcends the fields of cinema and politics and shows a different way of understanding, producing and teaching film.
He was a multidisciplinary auteur, who was always attentive to historical and political change, which he observed with a critical eye.
This is one of the first books in English about Jorda's body of work. The Films of Joaquin Jorda provides this recognition on the international scene with chapters by 17 contributors, academics from international universities and professionals with prestigious careers. These chapters take into consideration not only his films but all his oeuvre and his multidisciplinary activity, which encompassed fiction films and documentaries, television screenplays, translations of literature, militant politics and pedagogy.
Fran Benavente is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He is the author of El héroe trágico del western. El género y sus límites (The Tragic Hero in Westerns: Genre and Its Limits, 2017) and co-editor of Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013). Glòria Salvadó-Corretger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). She is the author of Espectres del cinema portuguès contemporani (Spectres of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema, 2012) and co-editor of Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013).
