Blood cinema : the reconstruction of national identity in Spain /
by Marsha Kinder.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
- xi, 553 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"A Centennial book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-522) and index.
Introduction: Beyond the Boundaries of a National Cinema -- 1. The Ideological Reinscription of Neorealist and Hollywood Conventions in Spanish Cinema of the 1950s: Falangist Neorealism in Surcos -- 2. The Subversive Reinscription of Melodrama in Muerte de un ciclista -- 3. Breaking New Ground in Los golfos, El cochecito, and El espiritu de la colmeno -- 4. Sacrifice and Massacre: On the Cultural Specificity of Violence -- 5. The Spanish Oedipal Narrative and Its Subversion -- 6. Exile and Ideological Reinscription: The Unique Case of Luis Bunuel -- 7. The Economics of Exile: Borau On the Line of the National/International Interface -- 8. Micro- and Macroregionalism in Catalan Cinema, European Coproductions, and Global Television.
Examines the films of such key directors as Bunuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodovar, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, exploring how they manifest political and cultural tensions related to the production of Spanish national identity within a changing global context.