Religion and Spanish Film : Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors /

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How Spanish directors have handled religious themes, with their highly-charged political implications, from the historical avant-garde to 2010.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scarlett, Elizabeth A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Buñuel, Luis > 1900-1983
Buñuel, Luis, > 1900-1983.
Buñuel, Luis, > 1900-1983 > Criticism and interpretation.
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church > In motion pictures.
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Katholische Kirche > Motiv
Religion > Motiv
Religion in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Religion au cinema.
Cinema > Espagne > Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism.
Spanien
Spain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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