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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464675303321

Autore

Loxham Abigail

Titolo

Cinema at the edges : new encounters with Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and José Luis Guerín / / Abigail Loxham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-305-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302330922

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Spain - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Figures; Introduction - Defining the Edge; Chapter One - (Re-)Defining Spanish Cinema?; Chapter Two - Julio Medem: At the Margins of the Self; Chapter Three - Bigas Luna: Physical Frontiers; Chapter Four - José Luis Guerín: Between Reality and Fiction; Conclusion - Looking Forward to the Past; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan José Bigas Luna, and José Luis Guerín are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities. Their films examine the limitations of the cinematic gaze, as the author shows, highlighting the ways in which these directors make recourse to hybridity, contact, and interface to overcome the binary power dynamic previously thought to be a feature of cinema. This book explores their status as solely "Spanish" filmmakers while focusing on their diverse and immensely creative output, of