Performance and Spanish film - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071909772X ISBN 13: 9780719097720

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016

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Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film. With fifteen original essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, the book casts light on the manifold meanings, methods and influences of Spanish screen performance, from the silent era to the present day. In doing so, the book provides bold new readings of the work of significant Spanish actors and filmmakers, from Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Alfredo Landa, to Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Alejandro Amenábar. The fine-grained study of acting in each chapter also provides a means of exploring broader questions surrounding Spanish film practices, culture and society. Performance and Spanish film will be essential reading for both students and scholars of Spanish film alike, as well as to those more broadly interested in the history of screen acting. 'For enthusiasts of Spanish cinema and anyone bewitched by screen acting, this is a dream book. The editors bring together some of the most exciting and imaginative experts on Spanish Cinema writing in English today, as well as presenting a substantial and brilliant introduction to the topic. Each chapter has its own compelling revelations, whether by way of fine-grained analysis or wide new conceptual framings, whether on single named actors, particular films, modes of training, or successive new ways of making films.' Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, the University of Manchester

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Tom Whittaker is Senior Lecturer in Film and Spanish Studies at the University of Liverpool Dean Allbritton is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Colby College Alejandro Melero is Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Carlos III University, Madrid

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While several critical works on Spanish cinema have centred on the cultural, social and industrial significance of stars, there has been relatively little critical scholarship on what stars are paid to do: act. Bringing together a range of scholars that attend carefully to the performances, acting styles, and historical influences of Spanish film, Performance and Spanish film is the first book to place the process of Spanish acting centre stage. Comprising fifteen original essays from renowned scholars of Spanish film, the book casts light on the manifold meanings, methods and influences of Spanish screen performance, from the silent era to the present day. It situates the development of Spanish screen acting in both its national and global contexts, tracing acting techniques that are largely indigenous to Spain, as well as unpicking the ways in which Spanish performance has frequently been shaped by international influences and forces. In doing so, the book provides a probing analysis of the work of significant Spanish actors and filmmakers, from Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Alfredo Landa, to Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Alejandro Amenábar. As the volume ultimately demonstrates, acting serves as a powerful site of meaning through which broader questions around Spanish film practices, culture and society can be explored. Performance and Spanish film will be essential reading for both students and scholars of Spanish film alike, as well as to those more broadly interested in the history of screen acting.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 071909772X
• ISBN 13: 9780719097720
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
• Herausgeber: Allbritton Dean, Melero Alejandro, Whittaker Tom
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