Democrazy in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life (1968-2008) (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures)

Estrada, Isabel M.

Liverpool University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781835536896
• DDC分類 791.430946

Full Description

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.

The 2008 financial crisis prompted the most significant social protests since 1968 in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. These protests generated not only social reform but also collaborative and affective affiliations, often seen through artistic and cultural materials. Taking Spain as a focal point, this book examines film production at both points in time, showing how it emerges from simultaneously divergent and comparable economic and political milieux. The book aims to recognize and celebrate the political responsibility exercised and expressed by a new generation of Spaniards deeply immersed in those protests. Through the convergences of two markedly significant periods in two separate centuries, filmmakers expose the deficiencies of Spain's democracy in 2008—the D€MOCRAZY in the title, a slogan seen on a banner carried by the protesters—while creating a new sensibility and forms of social life that bring back the notions of community and the common good that had been forgotten in the midst of such a brittle environment.

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The "d-generation" of María Cañas: Spanish Cinema in the Era of Technological Reproducibility

Chapter 2. Cinematic Dialogues with the 1960s and 1970s: Ledo and Portabella, Cañas and Bollaín, and López Carrasco and Zulueta

Chapter 3. Unearthing Amateur Footage from the 1960s and 1970s: José Luis Tirado, Ramiro Ledo, Isaki Lacuesta and Chema Mascareña

Chapter 4. The Cinema of Helena Lumbreras (1935-95) and the Political Practice of Responsibility

Chapter 5. Euphoria and Madness or Affect as a New Form of Social Life: María Ruido and Basilio Martín Patino

Chapter 6. From 2008 to the Dreadful 2020: Dystopia and Necropolitics in María Cañas's Expo Lío 92 (2017) and Luis López Carrasco's El año del descubrimiento (2020)

Conclusion

Works Cited