Literary adaptations in Spanish cinema
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Literary adaptations in Spanish cinema
(Colección Támesis, Serie A,
Tamesis, 2004
- alk. paper
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Note
Filmography: p. [167]-170
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-188) and index
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New readings of 20th-century literary cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory.
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 thatstudies 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 threethemes 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 Bunuel's previously unacknowledged stylistic debt to Galdos as manifested in his adaptations of Nazarin and Tristana.
SALLY FAULKNER is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter.
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