The cinema of #x000C1;lex de la Iglesia

by Peter Buse, N#x000FA;ria Triana-Toribio, Andrew Willis

Overview

Álex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodóvar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era - Acción mutante, El día de la bestia, Muertos de risa - receives here the first full length study of his work. Breaking away from the pious tradition of acclaiming art-house auteurs, The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia tackles a new sort of beast: the popular auteur, who brings the provocation of the avant-garde to popular genres such as horror and comedy. This book brings together Anglo-American film theory, an exploration of the legal and economic history of Spanish audio-visual culture, a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish cultural forms and traditions (esperpento, sainete costumbrista) with a detailed textual analysis of all of Álex de la Iglesia's seven feature films.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847796295
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	07/19/2013
Series:	Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers MUP
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter Buse is Professor in Visual Culture at the University of Salford Núria Triana-Toribio is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Manchester Andrew Willis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Acción mutante: against the conspiracy of boredom 2. El día de la bestia: comedy, sub-cultures, televisión 3. Perdita Durango: the body, sex, and Mexico 4. Muertos de risa: comedy, television, history 5. La comunidad: modernity and the cinematic past 6. 800 balas: undoing the ignominy of boyhood 7. Crimen ferpecto: the mise-en-scène of mise-en-scène Conclusion Filmography