Cinema of Alex De La Iglesia

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Willis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford Núria Triana-Toribio is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Manchester Peter Buse is Lecturer in English and a member of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford Klappentext Álex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodóvar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era - Acción mutante, El día de la bestia, Muertos de risa - receives here the first full length study of his work. Breaking away from the pious tradition of acclaiming art-house auteurs, The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia tackles a new sort of beast: the popular auteur, who brings the provocation of the avant-garde to popular genres such as horror and comedy.This book brings together Anglo-American film theory, an exploration of the legal and economic history of Spanish audio-visual culture, a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish cultural forms and traditions (esperpento, sainete costumbrista) with a detailed textual analysis of all of Álex de la Iglesia's seven feature films. Zusammenfassung The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Acción mutante: against the conspiracy of boredom2. El día de la bestia: comedy, sub-cultures, televisión3. Perdita Durango: the body, sex, and Mexico4. Muertos de risa: comedy, television, history5. La comunidad: modernity and the cinematic past6. 800 balas: undoing the ignominy of boyhood7. Crimen ferpecto: the mise-en-scène of mise-en-scèneConclusionFilmography...

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• Authors: Peter Buse, Professor Peter Buse, Professor Peter Triana-Toribio Buse, BUSE PROFESSOR PETER TRIANA TORIB, Nuria Triana-Toribio, Andy Willis, Andy Buse Willis, Andy Triana-Toribio Willis
• Assisted by: Nuria Triana-Toribio (Editor), Andy Willis (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2007
• EAN: 9780719071362
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7136-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers; Spanish and Latin American Fil; Spanish and Latin American Film Makers; Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers; Spanish and Latin American Fil; Spanish and Latin-American Fil
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies