List of Figures vii
About the Authors viii
Acknowledgments x
Preface xi
1 Silent Cinema and its Pioneers (1906?1930) 1
El ciego de aldea, Ángel García Cardona 8
Amor que mata, Fructuós Gelabert 10
Don Pedro el Cruel, Ricardo Baños, Albert Marro 12
La aldea maldita, Florián Rey 15
2 Surrealism (1924?1930) and the Advent of Sound (the
Second Republic: 1931?1936) 21
Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel 26
Tierra sin pan, Luis Buñuel 30
3 Spanish Civil War (1936?1939) 39
Suspiros de España, Benito Perojo 46
Canciones para después de una guerra, Basilio Martín
Patino 52
4 The Autarky: Papier-Mâché Cinema
(1939?1950) 61
Raza, José Luis Sáenz de Heredia 66
Locura de amor, Juan de Orduña 74
5 Neorealism: Status Quo and Dissent (1951?1961)
81
El cochecito, Marco Ferreri 89
Viridiana, Luis Buñuel 96
6 The ?Liberal? Dictatorship and its Agony
(1962?1975) 104
El verdugo, Luis García Berlanga 113
El jardín de las delicias, Carlos Saura 120
7 Cinema of the Transition: The Period of Disenchantment
(1975?1979) 127
El desencanto, Jaime Chávarri 140
El crimen de Cuenca, Pilar Miró 145
8 Post-Franco Spain: The Pedro Almodóvar Phenomenon
(1980?1991) 152
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, Pedro
Almodóvar 161
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!, Pedro
Almodóvar 169
9 Contemporary Trends (1992 to the Present) 180
Vacas, Julio Medem 194
Carícies, Ventura Pons 203
Flores de otro mundo, Icíar Bollaín 211
The Secret Life of Words (La vida secreta de las palabras),
Isabel Coixet 218
Glossary of Film Terms 226
Historical Chronology 232
Notes 246
Bibliography 257
Index 263
Tatjana Pavlovic is Associate Professor of Spanish at Tulane
University in New Orleans.
Inmaculada Alvàrez is a Visiting Assistant Professor
at University of California, Riverside.
Rosana Blanco-Cano is Assistant Professor at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas.
Anitra Grisales is a freelance editor and translator
specializing in film and media studies.
Alejandra Osorio is a professor in the Communications
Department of the Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico.
Alejandra Sánchez is a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane
University in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
?An excellent resource for students of Spanish film and/or contemporary Spanish culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended.? (Choice Reviews, May 2009)
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