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Spanish Cinema Against Itself - (New Directions in National Cinemas) by Steven Marsh (Paperback)

Spanish Cinema Against Itself - (New Directions in National Cinemas) by  Steven Marsh (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book is a theoretical study that explores understudied filmmakers, producers, and film collectives in Spanish cinema. It demonstrates how this marginal, experimental, and politically militant cinema works against dominant national narratives in Spanish.</p> <p>2. By exploring this Spanish counter history this book also considers the broader role such cinema has played in transnational settings.</p> <p>3. Author Steven Marsh is an established scholar of Spanish cinema.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Spanish Cinema against Itself</em> maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s--with the work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, experimentalist José Val de Omar, and militant documentary filmmaker Carlos Velo--through to the contemporary period. Framed by film theory this book traces the works of understudied and non-canonical Spanish filmmakers, producers, and film collectives to open up alternate, more cosmopolitan and philosophical spaces for film discussion. In an age of the post-national and the postcinematic, Steven Marsh's work challenges conventional historiographical discourse, the concept of national cinema, and questions of form in cinematic practice.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Steven Marsh is Professor of Spanish Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of <i>Popular Spanish Film Under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State</i> and editor (with Parvati Nair) of <i>Gender and Spanish Cinema</i>.</p>

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