Filmspanism - A Critical Companion to the Study of Spanish Cinema

__Filmspanism__ explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema. This companion rethinks the role of disciplinarity, institutionality, and nationality in the study of film by taking into account a rather specific set of contentious issues, intellectual traditions, discursive servitudes, and invested scholarship. To that end, the book explores the topics of art cinema, popular culture, film genre, and transnationalism, always with Spanish cinema as its concrete object of study. An insightful contribution to the study of Spanish cinema, this discussion will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Hispanism and its cinematic discontents Foundational frictions Filmspanism Bloody Oedipus Thinking and filming the nation Imagining the opposite of a community (together) Imagined beginnings Vernacular modernity Conclusion 2 Film, art, poetry: Spanish cinema and the place of literature Sister arts, mining shaft, or a medium to overcome Questions of space Aesthetics and institutions The Spanish difference (again) Art cinema made in Spain An art cinema for the 1990s El sol del membrillo: painting with light in the national imagescape Institutionally artistic Can you tell the filmmaker from the film? Poetry and film Images that do not narrate Conclusion 3 Popular film or cinema as bad object The place of popular film within peninsular cultural studies Plots against images and deaths that cannot kill Paletos, landismo, and some torrentismo How popular is Torrente? Too many last names Documenting, judging, identifying Conclusion 4 Genre and nation Made in (E)spain National genres Guerracivilismo The persistence of the memory image Agonic national identity Transnational fantasies, local knowledge Memory fictions Conclusion 5 (Spanish) transnational cinema The trans and the national Follow the money, map the themes Sponsored communities and (s)elective affinities How to be transnational abroad Transnationalism made in Spain and questions of genre A thrilling crisis Thriller made in Spain The production of crisis images Cut to the chase Manos arriba, esto es un atraco/Hands up, this is a holdup Conclusion 6 Screenspanism? This is the end Actually, this is really the end Works cited Index "Filmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema. This companion rethinks the role of disciplinarity, institutionality, and nationality in the study of film by taking into account a rather specific set of contentious issues, intellectual traditions, discursive servitudes, and invested scholarship. To that end, the book explores the topics of art cinema, popular culture, film genre, and transnationalism, always with Spanish cinema as its concrete object of study. An insightful contribution to the study of Spanish cinema, this discussion will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies"-- Provided by publisher Klappentext: "Filmspanism explores the geopolitics of knowledge involved in academic approaches to Spanish cinema. This companion rethinks the role of disciplinarity, institutionality, and nationality in the study of film by taking into account a rather specific set of contentious issues, intellectual traditions, discursive servitudes, and invested scholarship. To that end, the book explores the topics of art cinema, popular culture, film genre, and transnationalism, always with Spanish cinema as its concrete object of study. An insightful contribution to the study of Spanish cinema, this discussion will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Hispanic Studies and Film Studies"