Eliseo Subiela in Life and Cinema: The Persistence of Vision

Author:   Nancy J. Membrez
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9781476676845


Pages:   243
Publication Date:   25 February 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Audiences never have a lukewarm opinion of a Subiela film. They either love it passionately or hate it profoundly. That Eliseo Subiela (Buenos Aires, 1944-2016), an original and sensitive thinker, survived, and indeed throve in economically challenged Argentina while garnering more accolades abroad than in his own country, is a tribute to his grit, intelligence, imagination and persistence of vision. With an astounding list of prizes and honors, he was a world-class auteur. Even when he was making a TV commercial, his surreal style and poetic sensibility were unmistakable. This book represents the culmination of 20 years of research and personal correspondence with Eliseo Subiela. Through ten scholarly studies and five interviews, it sheds light on his life, esthetics, obsessions, struggles with madness, and, of course, his films. It addresses his earlier career in advertising, lifelong artistic influences, screenwriting techniques, critical reactions to his films, and what Subiela's example has to offer aspiring filmmakers, especially those in Latin America.

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Author:   Nancy J. Membrez
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781476676845


ISBN 10:   1476676844
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   25 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword: The Art of Eliseo Subiela: Chronotopes of Desire by Ksenija Bilbija Introduction Part One-The Persistence of Vision 1. Synthesis of a Life 2. The Persistence of Vision: Subiela's Advertising Career 3. Fifty Years of Madness: From A Long Silence (1963) to Man Facing Southeast (1987) to Vanishing Landscapes (2013) 4. Subiela, Godard and a Host of Others: A Notebook 5. The Second Self Motif in the Films of Eliseo Subiela 6. Subiela and the Critics 7. Tilting at Windmills in Latin American Cinema Part Two-Subiela, the Literary and the Personal 8. Subiela and Cortazar: A Shared Antenna 9. A Bent Antenna: The Conundrum of K-PAX 10. Collaborating with Eliseo Subiela, My Friend and Mentor Part Three-Interviews 11. An Interview with Marcela Saenz, Film Editor (2012) 12. An Interview with Ricardo De Angelis, Director of Photography and Colorist (2012) 13. An Interview with Eliseo Subiela (2000) 14. An Interview with Eliseo Subiela (2015) 15. The Last Interview: Eliseo Subiela Talks About Man Facing Southeast (2016) Appendix 1: Subiela's Filmography Appendix 2: Subiela's Film Prizes and Honors, in Chronological Order Appendix 3: An Open Letter to President Raul Alfonsin (1987) by Eliseo Subiela Appendix 4: Dogma 95 is Cinema Sabotage (1999) by Eliseo Subiela Appendix 5: Luis Bunuel's Final Scene (2010) by Eliseo Subiela Chapter Notes A Bibliography of Subiela's Interviews, Writings and Films Index

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Nancy J. Membrez is a professor of Spanish literature, culture, and Spanish and Latin American cinemas, as well as film production, at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She wrote the English subtitles for four Subiela films and produced three featurettes for the Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray of Man Facing Southeast. Her own film Portrait in Sepia Tone won Best Picture and Best Soundtrack at the International Filmmakers' Film Festival in Kent, England, in 2008. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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