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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"spanish cinema"”.
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Distorted Realities: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film
Over the past 20 years, Spanish cinema has embraced the fantastic genres in filmmaking. Films such as El día de la bestia/The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995), Los otros/The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001), El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) and Los …
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Spanish transitions: representation of transgender characters in Spanish film
… representations of transgender characters in Spanish cinema since their appearance in the 1970s up until today. The history of Spain in the last forty years, with its radical political changes, yields extremely fertile transgender case studies, especially in Spanish films, which become sites …
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Culture versus Commerce: New Strategies for the Internationalization of Catalan Cinema
This thesis analyses the potential of Catalan cinema to become a national cinema as the current political climate, with a significant part of the population claiming a Catalan state, indicates the relevance of this examination. Catalan cinema is currently considered a regional cinema, however …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA MAJOR PROFESSOR: Deborah Tudor, Ph.D. The recent tendency of returning to history in Korean cinema corresponds with the conjuncture of democratization and globalization from 1992, which is an antithesis of the former conjuncture: …
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Failure to deliver: transitional masculinities in late and post Francoist films (1963-1984)
… dictatorship declared, using a very coloquial Spanish expression: ""Vamos a poner a España que no la va a conocer ni la madre que la parió"" (we are going to change Spain so radically that not even her own mother is going to recognize her). That radical change proposed by Guerra had in fact …
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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
<p>The Spanish culture of storytelling suffered under the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The government-regulated cinema welcomed propaganda and melodrama, and denied the fantastic, the legendary, and the magical. These carefully manipulated histories, which served to …