Cuprins
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Maria M. Delgado
1. El espíritu de la colmena/ The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973): To Kill a Mocking Bird as neglected inter-text – Robin Fiddian
2. Cet obscur objet du désir/That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977): Buñuel’s technique – Mark Millington
3. Ocaña. Retrat intermittent/Ocaña. An Intermittent Portrait (Ventura Pons, 1977): The Mediterranean movida and the passing away of Francoist Barcelona – Alberto Mira
4. El dorado (Carlos Saura, 1987): The keys to El Dorado – Agustín Sánchez Vidal
5. El sol del membrillo/The Quince Tree Sun (Víctor Erice, 1992): Moving pictures — painting, drawing and filmmaking – María José Martínez Jurico and Stephen G.H. Roberts
6. Vacas/Cows (Julio Medem, 1992): From Goya’s dining room via Apocalypse Now – Jo Evans
7. Tesis/Thesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996): Delights and follies in filmic discourse – María Donapetry
8. Un instante en la vida ajena/An Instant of Distant Life (José Luis López- Linares, 2003): Domesticating the documentary archive – Kathleen M. Vernon
9. Ninette (José Luis Garci, 2005): Paris revisited – Sue Harris
10. El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006): Spanish horror – Paul Julian Smith
11. La noche de los girasoles/The Night of the Sunflowers (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, 2006): Palimpsests of genre, palimpsests of violence – Tom Whittaker
12. En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, 2007) and the durée of a derive – Rob Stone
13. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008): Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem acting strangely – Chris Perriam
14. La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008): Silence, historical memory and metaphor – Maria M. Delgado
15. Los abrazos rotos/ Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, 2009): Talking cures – Marvin D’Lugo
16. V.O.S. (Cesc Gay, 2009): From Shakespearean comedy to national identity – Celestino Deleyto
17. Y también la lluvia/Even the Rain (Icíar Bollaín, 2010): Social realism, transnationalism and (neo)colonialism – Duncan Wheeler
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