Burning Darkness : A Half Century of Spanish Cinema.

Intro -- Burning Darkness -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Rehearsing for Modernity in ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!(Luis García Berlanga, 1952) -- 2. Existential Crossroads in Muerte de un ciclista( Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955) -- 3. Viridiana Coca-Cola(Luis Buñuel, 1961) -- 4. El espíritu de la colmena: Memory, Nostalgia, Trauma(Víctor Erice, 1973) -- 5. A Poetics of Splitting: Memory and Identity in La prima Angélica(Carlos Saura, 1974) -- 6. Ambiguous Disenchantment in El corazón del bosque(Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, 1979) -- 7. Los paraísos perdidos: Cinema of Return and Repetition(Basilio Martín Patino, 1985) -- 8. (M)Othering Strategies in El pájaro de la felicidad(Pilar Miró, 1993) -- 9. Abjection, Trauma, and the Material Image: La madre muerta( Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1993) -- 10. The Catalan Body Politic as Aired in La teta i la lluna(Bigas Luna, 1994) -- 11. Genre and Screen Violence: Revisiting Tesis(Alejandro Amenábar, 1995) -- 12. Conceptualizing "the Impact"in Los amantes del Círculo Polar( Julio Medem, 1998) -- 13. Immortal/Undead: The Body and the Transmission of Tradition in Amic/Amat(Ventura Pons, 1998) -- 14. Imitation of Life: Transsexuality and Transtextuality in Todo sobre mi madre(Pedro Almodóvar, 1999) -- 15. The Construction of the Cinematic Image: En construcción( José Luis Guerín, 2000) -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

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