Overview
In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Perez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain's modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, ""nun films,"" which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Perez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. Confessional Cinema offers a provocative and original analysis of the significance of religion not from a theological point of view, but rather as a socio-political force and cultural determinant in the Spanish public sphere of this period, known as desarrollismo (development years) from 1960-1975.
Full Product Details
Author: Jorge Pérez
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9781487501082
ISBN 10: 1487501080
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 19 May 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
`In this ground breaking study, P�rez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features.... Highly recommended.' -- D. West * Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018 *
`In this ground breaking study, Perez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features.... Highly recommended.' -- D. West * Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018 * `Confessional Cinema is bound to be a most influential work and a fundamental referent in Spanish cultural and film studies for many years to come.' -- Jorge Mari * Europe Now issue 16 published on April 17, 2018 *
'In this ground breaking study, P?rez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features.... Highly recommended.' - D. West - Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018
'In this ground breaking study, P?rez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features.... Highly recommended.' - D. West - Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018
‘In this ground breaking study, Pérez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features…. Highly recommended.’ - D. West (Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018) ‘Confessional Cinema is bound to be a most influential work and a fundamental referent in Spanish cultural and film studies for many years to come.’ - Jorge Mari (Europe Now issue 16 published on April 17, 2018)
Author Information
Jorge Pérez is Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin.
