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OverviewCatalan Cinema offers a theoretical reading of the most relevant cinematic productions to emerge from Catalonia in the last twenty years. The essays in this collection examine cinema in relation to the Escola de Barcelona (The Barcelona School), a group of cinema directors that drew inspiration from British pop-art, Free Cinema, and the Nouvelle Vague to create works that defied and challenged the Franco dictatorship. Highlighting the aesthetic, social, and political elements of Catalan cinematography, contributors to this volume explore what young directors have in common with works created by more notable directors such as Joaquim Jorda, Jacinto Esteva, Jordi Grau, and Pere Portabella. Catalan Cinema focuses on the importance of modern production and its connection with the avant-garde and underground cinema from the Barcelona School. Establishing a cinematic genealogy, the volume ultimately questions if Catalan cinema's own push for self-expression may be interpreted as a connection to Catalonia's current drive for independence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anton Pujol , Jaume Martí-OlivellaPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9781487544508ISBN 10: 1487544502 Pages: 370 Publication Date: 10 April 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available, will be POD  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon it's release. This is a print on demand item which is still yet to be released. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Anton Pujol and Jaume Martí-Olivella Part One: The Mavericks and the Barcelona School 1. Future Seeds: Some Considerations on the Cinema around Barcelona 92 Angel Quintana Part Two: The Jordà Legacy 2. The Hunter and the Monkeys: Jacinto Esteva, Joaquim Jordà, and the Legacy of the Barcelona School Esteve Riambau 3. Jordà’s Last Trilogy: Situationist Turn and Subject Transformation Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas 4. The Militant Cinema of Joaquim Jordà Steven Marsh Part Three: The Portabella Nexus 5. Economies of Sound: Labouring Europe in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos Sara Nadal-Melsió 6. Pere Portabella’s Radical Theatricality: A Political Gaze Over Two Transitions Jaume Martí-Olivella 7. Traversing the Real with the Reel: Pere Portabella’s Vampir.Cuadecuc and Albert Serra’s Història de la meva mort Infrapolitical Spectrality Teresa M. Vilarós Part Four: The New (Post) Avant-Garde 8. Beyond Melancholy: The Post-Avant-Garde Cinema of José Luis Guerín Josep Maria Català 9. On the Threshold of the Diegetic World: Optical and Haptic Visuality in Elisa K Eva Bru 10. Watching Novels and Reading Films: Deleuzian Affects in Catalan Cinema Anton Pujol Part Five: Minimalism and Beyond 11. Formal Disruption, Minutiae, and Absence in the Films of Jaime Rosales Agustín Rico-Albero 12. Identitykit: Where Do We Meet Isaki Lacuesta Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen Contributors Index Edition Statement (e.g. “2nd Edition”):Reviews"""This is an extraordinary and careful collection of essays on two essential moments in the history of Catalan cinema (the 1960s-1970s and the present), which focuses on what these two periods have in common and what sets them apart. The book establishes a bridge between the political and aesthetic experimental cinematic images that the most significant directors of these two periods have produced. The editors have provided their readership with fascinating and challenging theoretical and analytical perspectives on the best of Catalan cinema, and the book as a whole provides an excellent genealogy that will assist scholars and experts in delving deeper into the complexities of the Catalan film tradition. This is a remarkable co-edited work."" - Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Kathleen M. Canning Collegiate Professor of Spanish and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan Ann Arbor ""This volume on the emergence of the influential Barcelona School and its impact on the broader filmmaking culture in Catalonia offers a unique insight into the work of filmmakers whose impact has not always been recognised. A series of insightful essays recentres figures such as Pere Portabella and Joaquim Jord�, and provides bold treatments of the crop of Catalan filmmakers who have gone on to pick up their mantle: Jos� Luis Guer�n, Albert Serra, Isaki Lacuesta, and Jaime Rosales. If you want to understand where the women filmmakers who are currently shaking world cinema, including Carla Sim�n, Carla Subirana, and Neus Ball�s, are coming from, this volume is a great place to start. An important contribution to Catalan cinema studies with an influence that goes beyond this vibrant national film culture to wider areas of avant-garde filmmaking."" - Maria M. Delgado, Professor and Vice Principal of Research and Knowledge Exchange, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London" """This is an extraordinary and careful collection of essays on two essential moments in the history of Catalan cinema (the 1960s-1970s and the present), which focuses on what these two periods have in common and what sets them apart. The book establishes a bridge between the political and aesthetic experimental cinematic images that the most significant directors of these two periods have produced. The editors have provided their readership with fascinating and challenging theoretical and analytical perspectives on the best of Catalan cinema, and the book as a whole provides an excellent genealogy that will assist scholars and experts in delving deeper into the complexities of the Catalan film tradition. This is a remarkable co-edited work."" - Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Kathleen M. Canning Collegiate Professor of Spanish and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan Ann Arbor ""This volume on the emergence of the influential Barcelona School and its impact on the broader filmmaking culture in Catalonia offers a unique insight into the work of filmmakers whose impact has not always been recognised. A series of insightful essays recentres figures such as Pere Portabella and Joaquim Jordà, and provides bold treatments of the crop of Catalan filmmakers who have gone on to pick up their mantle: José Luis Guerín, Albert Serra, Isaki Lacuesta, and Jaime Rosales. If you want to understand where the women filmmakers who are currently shaking world cinema, including Carla Simón, Carla Subirana, and Neus Ballús, are coming from, this volume is a great place to start. An important contribution to Catalan cinema studies with an influence that goes beyond this vibrant national film culture to wider areas of avant-garde filmmaking."" - Maria M. Delgado, Professor and Vice Principal of Research and Knowledge Exchange, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London" Author InformationAnton Pujol is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Jaume Martí-Olivella is an associate professor of Hispanic film and cultural studies at the University of New Hampshire. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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