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This book analyzes the mythical aura of Spanish low-budget films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and how marginalization was exploited and romanticized.
List of contents
Prologue:
Rehearsing Circles, Hilario J. Rodríguez; Introduction:
Quinqui Film as a Reflection of the Transition, Illusions and Shadows of the Great Change, Jorge González del Pozo and Juan Laborda Barceló; Chapter 1
Cinema on the Margin. Reflection on Quinqui Filmography by Eloy de la Iglesia, Javier Sánchez Cortina and Teresa Cortina de la Calle; Chapter 2
Heroes and Anti-heroes. . . From the Neighborhood: The History of Postmodern "Robinhoods". Alberto Pascual Pérez; Chapter 3
The Repercussion in the National Press of Derpisa, deprisa (1981), Alejandro Gutiérrez; Chapter 4 Siete vírgenes (2005):
Quinquis for the New Millennium, Fernando Marañón; Chapter 5 Margin, Marginality and Delinquency in the area of Quinqui: from Nomadism to the Suburbs in
Volando voy (2006) by Miguel Albaladejo, Agustín Cuadrado Gutiérrez; Chapter 6 Todos me llaman gato (1980), S
uburban Animals, Andrés Maté Lázaro; Chapter 7
Women on the Warpath. Perras callejeras (1985)
by José Antonio de la Loma, Juan Laborda Barceló; Chapter 8
Quinquilleras, Exploitation and Forced Capitalism in Barcelona sur (1981)
by Jordi Cadena: An Atypical Case of Delinquent Women in the Unstructured City of the 80s during the Spanish Transition, Jorge González del Pozo; Index.
About the author
Jorge González del Pozo is a full professor of spanish at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where he teaches Spanish literature, film, culture and language.
