David Archibald

The War That Won't Die

The Spanish Civil War in Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. When the civil broke out in 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts played an important role in shaping popular understandings of this dramatic historical period and this book examines cinema's specific role in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood Blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. In providing critical analyses of a diverse range of cinematic depictions of the period, the book draws on, and situates these analyses within, contemporary debates on Spanish Civil War historiography, the philosophy of history, and the relationship between the past and its cinematic representation. The book highlights the elasticity of cinematic depictions of one historical event, and suggests that the civil war setting will continue to be one to which filmmakers turn as the battle for Spain's future is partially played out in the cinematically recreated battles of the past. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078088
• ISBN-10: 0719078083
• Artikelnr.: 36126263

Autorenporträt

David Archibald is Lecturer in Theatre Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of illustrations Introduction: film, history and the
Spanish Civil War 1. Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War: For Whom the Bell
Tolls 2. The Spanish Civil War in East German Cinema: Fünf
Patronenhülsen/Five Cartridges 3. Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War in
cinema: ¡Viva La Muerte!/Long Live Death and L' arbre de Guernica/The Tree
of Guernica 4. Film under Franco: La caza/The Hunt and El jardín de las
delicias/The Garden of Delights 5. Re-cycling Basque history: patterns of
the past in Vacas/Cows 6. No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil
War in cinema 7. Ghosts of the past: El espinazo del Diablo/The Devil's
Backbone 8. A story from the Spanish revolution: Land and Freedom/Tierra y
Libertad 9. The search for truth in Soldados de Salamina/Soldiers of
Salamina Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index