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Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema

By Sally Faulkner

Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema Contemporary literature

Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema

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New readings of 20th-century literary cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. New readings of literary and cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. In her survey of the history of Spanish cinema in the dictatorship and democratic periods, the author argues thatstudies of adaptations must simultaneously address questions of 'text' - formal issues central to the study of film and literature - and 'context' - ideological concerns crucial to late twentieth-century Spain. She examines threethemes of particular importance to contemporary Spanish culture - the recuperation of history, the negotiation of the rural and the urban, and the representation of gender - and considers the related stylistic issues of the affinities between cinematic expression and nostalgia, the city and phallocentrism. The study concludes with an analysis of the formal question of the narrator in film and literature, through an assessment of Buñuel's previously unacknowledged stylistic debt to Galdós as manifested in his adaptations of Nazarín and Tristana. SALLY FAULKNER is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter.
Product details
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2004-05-10
Publication Date:
2004-03-01
Publisher:
Tamesis
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1855660989
ISBN13:
9781855660984
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
482 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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