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

• Autore: Loxham Abigail
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302330922
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Spain - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cinema at the edges
• ISBN: 1-78238-305-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464675303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II