Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, is still making film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era -- "Accion mutante, El dia de la bestia, Muertos de risa" -- receives here the first full length study of his work. Breaking away from the pious tradition of acclaiming art-house auteurs, The cinema of Alex de la Iglesia tackles a new sort of beast: the popular auteur, who brings the provocation of the avant-garde to popular genres such as horror and comedy."
Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, is still making film critics nervous...
This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of "Vacas, La ardilla roja "(Red Squirrel), "Tierra, Los amantes del circulo polar" (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), "Lucia y el sexo "(Sex and Lucia)," La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra" (Basque Ball) and "Caotica Ana" (Chaotic Ana)."
This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned w...
Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as a purveyor of crude violence by those critics lamenting a "lost golden age" of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoro's films reveal in fact a more complex interaction with trends and traditions in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema.
This book is the first full-length study of the director's work, from his early social realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the...
Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong r...
Since the release of his first feature (Tesis) in 1996, Alejandro Amenabar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, its 'King Midas' - a bankable star director - whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the biggest grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim (including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004). Having eclipsed Almodovar, he now stands at the apex of the Spanish film industry and is widely regarded as Spain's best...
Since the release of his first feature (Tesis) in 1996, Alejandro Amenabar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, its 'King Midas' - a ban...
Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollain is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female director to have had a film (Tambien la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy. Through detailed analysis of film form, socio-cultural contexts and conditions of production and consumption, the book opens up key issues on gender, production, film authorship, the mediation of socio-historical realities and the whole question of 'women's cinema'. Covering all aspects of her career, this book begins by taking in her work in...
Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollain is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female dire...
