Filmspanism - A Critical Companion to the Study of Spanish Cinema

Filmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema.

This companion rethinks the role of disciplinarity, institutionality, and nationality in the study of film by taking into account a rather specific set of contentious issues, intellectual traditions, discursive servitudes, and invested scholarship. To that end, the book explores the topics of art cinema, popular culture, film genre, and transnationalism, always with Spanish cinema as its concrete object of study.

An insightful contribution to the study of Spanish cinema, this discussion will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Hispanism and its Cinematic Discontents 2. Film, Art, Poetry: Spanish Cinema and the Place of Literature 3. Popular Film or Cinema as Bad Object 4. Genre and Nation 5. (Spanish) Transnational Cinema. Conclusion: Screenspanism?

About the author

Juan F. Egea is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US. He is the author of La poesía del nosotros: Jaime Gil de Biedma y la secuencia lírica moderna and Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy, and the Nation.

Summary

Filmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Egea, Juan F. Egea, Egea Juan F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367111526
• ISBN: 978-0-367-11152-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Ethnic Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Hispanic & Latino Studies, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / African Languages