Overview

In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orphanage and Timecrimes have received widespread attention and popularity, arguably rescuing Spanish cinema from its semi-invisibility during the creativity-crushing Franco years. By turns daring, evocative, outrageous, and intense, this new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots. Beginning in the 1990s, films from directors such as Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenabar, and Jaume Balaguero reinvigorated Spanish cinema in the horror, science fiction and fantasy veins as their work proliferated and took centre stage at international festivals such as Sitges, Fantasia International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Through an examination of key films and filmmakers, Shelagh Rowan-Legg here investigates the rise of this unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field.Its emergence is part of a new trend of postnational cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity.

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Author:   Shelagh Rowan-Legg (Independent researcher, Canada) ,  Julian Ross ,  Lucia Nagib
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.327kg
ISBN:  

9781350242425

ISBN 10:   135024242
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   25 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Bastard Sons: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film Chapter 1 Alex de la Iglesia: The Father of a Generation Mutant Action and The Day of the Beast Chapter 2 Heroes and Villains The Birthday and The Backwoods Chapter 3 Alejandro Amenabar: The Drop-Out Auteur Open Your Eyes and The Others Chapter 4 The Haunting of Houses The Abandoned and The Orphanage Chapter 5 Jaume Balaguero: The Horror Aficionado The Nameless and Darkness Chapter 6 The Spanish Fantastic Woman Sexykiller and Hierro Chapter 7 Guillermo del Toro: The Outside Man The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth Chapter 8 Franchising the Spanish Fantastic The [REC] Films Chapter 9 Nacho Vigalondo, The Illegitimate Inheritor Timescrimes and Extraterrestrial Conclusion The End of an Era?

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg is a writer, filmmaker, and script consultant. She is the Executive Director of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, a programmer for FrightFest, and a contributing editor for ScreenAnarchy. Her award-winning short films have screened at festivals around the world. She has a PhD in Spanish fantastic film from King's College London.

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