Popular Spanish Film under Franco by Steven MarshCall Number: Main Library Stacks PN1993.5 .S7 M2939 2006
ISBN: 1403941173
Publication Date: 2005-11-19
This book constitutes the first in-depth cultural analysis of a period generally held to be the golden age of film production in Spain. Its focus on the work of five directors between 1942 and 1964 seeks to dispel the myth that movie making of early Francoism consisted exclusively of propaganda exercises. Using Gramscian hegemony theory, the volume offers an original perspective on the comic possibilities of subverting State populism and maps a filmmaking tradition that persists, in the figure of Pedro Almodóvar, to the present day.