In this Book
- The child in Spanish cinema
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema. Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art-house horror’, science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Erice’s The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, Mañas’s El Bola and the Marisol films. The book also draws on a century of filmmaking in Spain and intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema. This book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the areas of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies and cinema studies.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- 2. Coming of age with Marisol
- pp. 59-88
- Conclusion
- pp. 156-159
- Bibliography
- pp. 160-178
Additional Information
ISBN
9781526103192
Related ISBN(s)
9780719090523, 9781784993795
MARC Record
OCLC
980848364
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-07
Language
English
Open Access
No