Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema

Name: Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera

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Can cinema reveal its audience's most subversive thinking? Do films have the potential to project their viewers' innermost thoughts making them apparent on the screen? This bookargues that cinema has precisely this power, to unveil to the spectator their own hidden thoughts. It examines case studies from various cultures in conversation with Spain, a country whose enduring masterpieces in self-reflexive or meta-art provide insight into the special dynamic between viewer and screen.
Framed around critical readings of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, Diego Velázquez' Las meninas and Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, this book examines contemporary films by Víctor Erice, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Alejandro Amenábar, Lucrecia Martel, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Jonze, Andrzej Zulawski, Fernando Pérez, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg to illustrate how self-reflexivity in film unbridles the mental repression of film spectators. It proposes cinema as an uncanny duplication of the workings of the brain - a doppelgänger to human thought.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 208
Release Date:: 2025-03-20
Publication Date:: 2025-03-20
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN13:: 9798765101353
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 309 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 11 cm

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