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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457181203321

Autore

Whittaker Tom

Titolo

The Films of Elías Querejeta [[electronic resource] ] : A Producer of Landscapes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011

ISBN

1-299-20109-1

0-7083-2439-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Iberian and Latin American Studies

Disciplina

791.430

791.430232092

791.437

Soggetti

Foreign films

Male friendship -- Drama

Unemployment -- Drama

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Producing Resistance: Elías Querejeta's Political Landscapes; Geographies of Anxiety; Spaces of Violence; Infinite Landscapes; Rediscovering Roots: Ecology, Land and Region; No-Man's-Land: Transitional Space and Time; Global Spaces; Conclusion; Notes; Filmography; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain's most important producer. Through their recurring emphasis on landscape, his films have consistently documented a country in the grip of modernization from the 1960's to the present day. In particular, this book investigates the ways in which landscape in his productions can be understood as a site of political struggle against Francoism and Spain's embrace of neoliberal capitalism. In bringing together both the importance of cinematic and spatial production, the twin focus of this...