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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scarlett, Elizabeth A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2015.
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.