Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain

by Marsha Kinder

Book Overview

In this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder examines the films of such key directors as Bu uel, Saura, Erice, and Almod var, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, exploring how they manifest political and cultural tensions related to the production of Spanish national identity within a changing global context.

Concentrated on the decades from the 1950s to the 1990s, Kinder's work is broadly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520081579
• ISBN13: 9780520081574
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Superb analysis of the unique power of Spanish cinema.

From the films of such towering directors as Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, Victor Erice, and Pedro Almodovar, Kinder traces influences to the paintings of Goya and Ribera and the writings of Lorca and Galdos and to the political events in Spain's turbulent history. Most original are her explanations of what makes the melodrama and violence in these films specifically Spanish. It argues convincingly that in order to understand world cinema, one has to know the history of Spanish film. Illuminating and engaging, it is a highly readable, and well written exploration of Spanish art, history, and culture.