Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera

Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema

Mirrors to the Unconscious

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Structured by critical comparisons to Spain's masterworks in meta-art - Don Quixote, Las meninas, and Un chien andalou-, this book is about the power of cinema to conjure up thoughts within the viewer otherwise repressed in their socio-cultural environment"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765101353
• Artikelnr.: 70281164

Autorenporträt

Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University-Northridge, USA. He is a narrative filmmaker and film scholar from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His films explore gender, sexuality, and Latinx identity through the horror and thriller genres, and his academic work has been published in Studies in European Cinema, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America and the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Veiled
Screen 1. The Blinded Spectator: The Defiance of Reconstituted Sight 2. The
Conscious Spectator: An Intermedial Contemplation of Las meninas 3. The
Spectral Spectator: The Visor Effect in Film 4. The Crystallized Spectator:
The Spectator's Double in the Cinematic Abyss 5. The Self-Reflexive
Spectator: The Quixotic in Horror 6. The Delusional Spectator: Meta-Film as
Virtual Oneiric Simulation Conclusion: The Screen Unveiled Notes
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