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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Willis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford Andrew Willis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford Klappentext Spanish Popular Cinema is the first European language work to focus exclusively on this neglected aspect of Spain's film history. Moving from the 1930s to the present, the contributors to this book provide a diverse collection of essays that reassess some of the forgotten and critically overlooked works of Spanish popular cinema. Zusammenfassung Spanish Popular Cinema is the first European language work to focus exclusively on this neglected aspect of Spain's film history. Moving from the 1930s to the present! the contributors to this book provide a diverse collection of essays that reassess some of the forgotten and critically overlooked works of Spanish popular cinema. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Film studies, Spanish cinema and questions of the popular - Antonio Lázaro Reboll and Andrew Willis2. Dressing as foreigners: Historical and musical dramas of the early Franco period - Federico Bonaddio3. From rags to riches: The ideology of stardom in folkloric musical comedy films of the late 1930s and 1940s - Eva Woods4. Spectacular metaphors: The rhetoric of historical representation in Cifesa epics - Alberto Mira5. Re-framing the past: Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Spanish popular cinema - David Archibald6. 'Palaces of seeds': From an experience of local cinemas in post-war Madrid to a suggested approach to film audiences - Esther Gómez Sierra7. Populism, the national-popular and the politics of Luis García Berlanga - Steven Marsh8. Marisol: The Spanish Cinderella - Peter Evans 9. Screening 'Chicho': The horror ventures of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador - Antonio Lázaro Reboll10. Re-appraising Antonio Mercero: Film authorship and intuición popular - Philip Mitchell11. Rated 'S': Softcore pornography and the Spanish transition to democracy, 1977-1982 - Daniel Kowalsky12. Alejandro Amenábar's 'Abre los Ojos'/'Open Your Eyes' (1997) - Chris Perriam13. 'Solas' and the unbearable condition of loneliness in the late 1990s - Candyce Leonard14. From the margins to the mainstream: Trends in recent Spanish horror cinema - Andrew Willis...
