Catalan Cinema -

Catalan Cinema

The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde
Buch | Hardcover
370 Seiten
2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4450-8 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe.
Catalan 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 Jordà, 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.

Anton 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.

Acknowledgments
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”):

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Toronto Iberic
Zusatzinfo 21 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 236 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-4450-2 / 1487544502
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-4450-8 / 9781487544508
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