1st Edition
Filmspanism A Critical Companion to the Study of Spanish Cinema
By Juan F. Egea
Copyright 2021
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Filmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema.
This companion rethinks the role of disciplinarity, institutionality, and nationality in the study of film by taking into account a rather specific set of contentious issues, intellectual traditions, discursive servitudes, and invested scholarship. To that end, the book explores the topics... Read more
Introduction. 1. Hispanism and its Cinematic Discontents 2. Film, Art, Poetry: Spanish Cinema and the Place of Literature 3. Popular Film or Cinema as Bad Object 4. Genre and Nation 5. (Spanish) Transnational Cinema. Conclusion: Screenspanism?
Biography
Juan F. Egea is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US. He is the author of La poesía del nosotros: Jaime Gil de Biedma y la secuencia lírica moderna and Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy, and the Nation.
