Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One – Performing Pastness
Chapter Two – Performing Identities
Chapter Three – Metaperformances
Chapter Four – Performance as Catharsis and Therapy
Epilogue
References
Notes

Promotional Information

Explores the centrality of performance to Spain and the Spanish people by tracing the personal and national history of politics and performance in the context of contemporary Spanish cinema in the early twenty-first century.

About the Author

Fiona Noble is a researcher of contemporary Spanish cinema and visual culture. She has a PhD from the University of Aberdeen and has worked as a Teaching Fellow at Durham University and the University of Aberdeen. She has published on intercultural lesbian relationships in contemporary Spanish cinema, on the child in Spanish cinema and on corporeal representations in the work of Salvador Dalí.

Reviews

Noble’s detailed attention in her nuanced filmic analysis is admirable, as is her holistic approach to performance ... It is precisely through this nuanced examination of seemingly disparate material that this book provides an original and significant contribution paving the way for further work in this direction.
*Studies in European Cinema*

Taking into account the tensions between craft and public persona and adopting what she calls a “holistic view of performance”, Noble’s carefully researched, lucid, and significant book examines contemporary Spanish film in the light of the ever-shifting political context.
*Dr Niamh Thornton, Reader in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK*

In this bold book, Noble presents performance in cinema (in varied manifestations) as a heightened, privileged moment, opening out onto exhilarating new understandings of the Spanish past, identity politics, the political landscape and even, strikingly, as therapy.
*Sarah Wright, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway University, UK*