Spanish Cinema against Itself

Steven Marsh is Professor of Spanish Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of Popular Spanish Film Under Franco: Comedy and the Weakening of the State and editor (with Parvati Nair) of Gender and Spanish Cinema.

Acknowledgments


Introduction: Différance. Otherness. Experiment.


1. Interrogations of the National Allegory: Trance film and Ethnography


2. Intermediality, Intoxication, and the Infrathin


3. The Discontinuous Legacies of Pere Portabella: Between Heritage and Inheritance


4. History, Hauntology, Representation: Spanish Cinema Against Itself


5. The Ex of Experimentation: Against Periodization


6. The Catacoustic and the Cosmopolitan: Rhythm and Timbre in the Films of Andrés Duque


7. Turns and Returns, Envois/Renvois: The Postal Effect in Recent Spanish Film


8. Retrospective Future Perfect: History, Black Holes, and Time Warps in the Films of Los Hijos and Luis López Carrasco


9. ¡No nos representan!: Performativity as Militant Film, the 15-M Archive


Afterword: Unruly Archives. La décima carta and Buenas noches, España


Index