Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain

• ISBN: 9780520081574
• Estado: Bueno, con una arruga en la cubierta trasera.
• Ilustrado en blanco y negro.

"This is the most complete, in-depth, sophisticated study of Spanish cinema available in any language.» (D'Lugo, author of The Films of Carlos Saura).

Wfth this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder moves Spanish cinema into the mainstream of film studies by demonstrating that a knowledge of its history alters and enriches our understanding of world cinema. Her questioning and internationalizing of the "national cinema" concept and her application of contemporary critica¡ theory—especially insights from feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and discourse theory—distinguish Blood Cinema from previous histories of the subject. Kinder examines the films of well-known directors like Buñuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodóvar, 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.

• Marsha Kinder is Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. Her most recent books are Playing With Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games (California, 1991), and Remapping the PostFranco Cinema, a special issue of Quarterly Review of Film and Video (1991).