This course examines thematic and formal developments in Spanish filmmaking from the late 1990s, focusing on issues such as family, gender, migration, racism,...

Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II) (SPAN0042)

This course examines thematic and formal developments in Spanish filmmaking from the late 1990s, focusing on issues such as family, gender, migration, racism, queer identities, social problems, national identity, genre, and the increasing globalisation of the Spanish film industry. There will be five lectures and five seminars structured around five films. Lectures will be given each alternate week and there will be seminar discussions the week after each lecture. Each follow-up seminar will consist of informal, 10-minute student presentations on a set text, which will serve as preparation for the essay. 

 

Films: 

Solas (Benito Zambrano, 1999) 

Todo sobre mi madre (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999) 

Flores de otro mundo (Icíar Bollaín, 1999) 

The Others / Los otros (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001) 

Aguaviva (Ariadna Pujol, 2005) 

 

Suggested Background Reading: 

Jordan, B. and R. Morgan-Tamosunas. 1998. Contemporary Spanish Cinema (Manchester: Manchester University Press). 

Kinder, M. 1993. Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press). 

Labanyi, J. (ed.). 2002. Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice (Oxford: OUP) 

Marsh, R. and P. Nair. 2004. Gender and Spanish Cinema (Oxford & New York: Berg). 

Santaolalla, I. 2005. Los “Otros”: etnicidad y “raza” en el cine español contemporáneo (Saragossa & Madrid: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza & Ocho y Medio). 

Stone, Rob. 2002. Spanish Cinema (Harlow: Pearson). 

Triana-Toribio, Nuria. 2002. Spanish National Cinema (London & New York: Routledge). 

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