Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era - Accion mutante, El dia de la bestia, Muertos de risa - receives here the first full length study of his work. Breaking away from the pious tradition of acclaiming art-house auteurs, The cinema of Alex de la Iglesia tackles a new sort of beast: the popular auteur, who brings the provocation of the avant-garde to popular genres such as horror and comedy.
This book brings together Anglo-American film theory, an exploration of the legal and economic history of Spanish audio-visual culture, a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish cultural forms and traditions (esperpento, sainete costumbrista) with a detailed textual analysis of all of Alex de la Iglesia's seven feature films. -- .
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
Illustrations, black & white
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-7137-9 (9780719071379)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Peter Buse is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Salford. Nuria Triana-Toribio is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Manchester. Andrew Willis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford -- .
Introduction
1. Accion mutante: against the conspiracy of boredom
2. El dia de la bestia: comedy, sub-cultures, television
3. Perdita Durango: the body, sex, and Mexico
4. Muertos de risa: comedy, television, history
5. La comunidad: modernity and the cinematic past
6. 800 balas: undoing the ignominy of boyhood
7. Crimen ferpecto: the mise-en-scene of mise-en-scene
Conclusion
Filmography -- .
