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Religion and Spanish Film: Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors
Elizabeth Scarlett
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Treatments of religion found in Spanish cinema range from the pious to the anticlerical and atheistic, and every position in between. In a nation with a strong Catholic tradition, resistance to and rebellion against religious norms go back almost as far as the notion of "Sacred Spain." Religion and Spanish Film provides a sustained study of the religious film genre in Spain practiced by mainstream Francoist film makers, the evolving iconoclasm, parody, and reinvention of the Catholic by internationally renowned Surrealist Luis Buñuel, and the ongoing battle of the secular versus the religious manifested in critically and popularly acclaimed directors Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenábar, and many others. The conflicted Catholicism that emerges from examining religious themes in Spanish film history shows no sign of ending, as unresolved issues from the Civil War and Franco dictatorship, as well as the unsettled relationship between Church and State, continue into the present.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction: God and the Spanish Director
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ONE Luis Buñuel and the Reinvention of Catholicism
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Looking Back in Anger: Iconoclastic and Anticlerical Roots
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Catholicism Reinvented in Later Films
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TWO The Religious Genre Film and Its Discontents in Francoist Spain
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History of the Christian Religious Genre Film
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Preaching to the Converted: Missionaries and Apparitions of Mary
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Lives of the Saints as Measures of Holiness and Citizenship
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New Genres and New Wave Directors of the Sixties and Seventies
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THREE Breaking Boundaries: Post-Franco and Contemporary Directors
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Variations on a Theme of National Identity: Reclaiming St. Teresa
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Pedro Almodóvar and the Gathering Storm
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Postmodern Skepticism versus the Need to Believe
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Conclusion: Religion and the Spanish Habitus
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Notes
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Filmography of Films Discussed in Detail
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Works Cited
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Index of Film Titles, Theorists, and Directors
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Published: 2014
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-07245-3 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12077-2 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05245-5 (paper)