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The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film Plus Ultra Pluralism
By Matthew J. Marr
Copyright 2013
206 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
206 Pages
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Routledge
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The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies, this study is set both within and against a conversation on cultural diversity—with respect... Read more
Introduction: Framing Cultural Pluralism Anew in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Studies I. Adolescence and Alterity 1.The "Angry Girl" in Mensaka, Páginas de una historia ("Mensaka, Pages from a Story") (Salvador García Ruiz, 1998) 2. A Lad Indeed: Boyhood Friendship and the Politics of Masculinity in El Bola ("Pellet") (Achero Mañas, 2000) II. Senescence and Subjectivity 3.The Black Comedy of Aging in Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad ("Justino, a Senior Citizen Killer") ("La Cuadrilla" or Santiago Aguilar & Luis Guridi, 1994) 4.Senescent Seduction in Elsa y Fred ("Elsa and Fred") (Marcos Carnevale, 2004) III. Discourses of Disability 5.The Unseen Inside: Mental Illness as Disability in Mar adentro ("The Sea Inside")(Alejandro Amenábar, 2004) 6. A Pluralistic Vision: On Blindness and the Break with Auteurist "Autocracy" in Los abrazos rotos ("Broken Embraces") (Pedro Almodóvar, 2009)Afterword
Biography
Matthew J. Marr is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
