Religion and Spanish Film : Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors /
How Spanish directors have handled religious themes, with their highly-charged political implications, from the historical avant-garde to 2010.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: God and the Spanish director
- Luis Buñuel and the reinvention of Catholicism
- Looking back in anger: iconoclastic and anticlerical roots
- Catholicism reinvented in later films
- The religious genre and its discontents in Francoist Spain
- History of the Christian religious genre film
- Preaching to the converted: missionaries and apparitions of Mary
- Lives of the saints as measures of holiness and citizenship
- New genres and new wave directors of the sixties and seventies
- Breaking boundaries: post-Franco and contemporary directors
- Variations on a theme of national identity: reclaiming St. Teresa
- Pedro Almodóvar and the gathering storm
- Postmodern skepticism versus the need to believe
- Conclusion: religion and the Spanish habitus.