Spanish National Cinema.

This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present. While the book addresses the discourses around filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Medem, whose work has achieved international recognition, Spanish National Cinema is particularly novel in its treatment of a whole range of popular cinema rarely touched on in studies of Spanish cinema. Using accounts of films, popular film magazines and documents not readily available to an English-speaking audience, as well as case studies focusing on the key issues of.

SPANISH NATIONAL CINEMA -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- A Spanish national director? -- Nations and nationalism -- Spanish nationalism -- The nation and its cinema -- Popular cinema and art cinema -- Method -- Other national cinemas -- Glossary and filmography -- 2 Cinema in Spain from 1896 to 1939 -- The rebirth of a nation? -- Spain seen by Spanish people -- The 'natural' audience of Spanish cinema -- Propagating Spanishness at war (1936-9)? -- 3 A constant concern for the popular classes, 1939-62.

Comedy and nationalism: the fluctuating fortunes of Pedro Almodóvar as national filmmaker of the 1980s -- 6 Spanish cinema of the 1990s onwards: looking north but heading west -- The discourse on diversity -- New vulgarities: just when you thought that Spanish cinema was getting better -- Cine Social in the late 1990s and beyond -- Alex de la Iglesia -- The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001) -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.

Hispanidad in the national cinema -- Spanishness under siege -- 'Very big things to be on a par with foreigners' -- Loci of debates: films of national interest -- Folkloric inclusions and exclusions -- García Escudero's judgements of taste -- 4 For and against Franco's Spain, 1962-82 -- Chicos de García Escudero vs. Chicas de la Cruz Roja -- Continuity and the desire for change: Marisol in the 1960s -- What censorship created -- 5 How to 'reconquer' signs of identity, 1982-9 -- Towards a dignified cinema for the nation -- A new locus of debate: La ley Miró -- The other 1980s.

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