| Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema Contributor(s): Faulkner, Sally (Author) |
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ISBN: 1855660989 ISBN-13: 9781855660984 Publisher: Tamesis Books OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: New readings of literary and cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory. In her survey of the history of Spanish cinema in the dictatorship and democratic periods, the author argues that studies of adaptations must simultaneously address questions of 'text' - formal issues central to the study of film and literature - and 'context' - ideological concerns crucial to late twentieth-century Spain. She examines three themes of particular importance to contemporary Spanish culture - the recuperation of history, the negotiation of the rural and the urban, and the representation of gender - and considers the related stylistic issues of the affinities between cinematic expression and nostalgia, the city and phallocentrism. The study concludes with an analysis of the formal question of the narrator in film and literature, through an assessment of Buuel's previously unacknowledged stylistic debt to Galds as manifested in his adaptations of Nazarn and Tristana. SALLY FAULKNER is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2003015317 |
| Series: Monografías a |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.12" W x 9.48" (1.05 lbs) 208 pages |