Overview

The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miro - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic. -- .

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Author:   David Archibald
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780719078088

ISBN 10:   0719078083
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 November 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of illustrations Introduction: film, history and the Spanish Civil War 1. Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War: For Whom the Bell Tolls 2. The Spanish Civil War in East German Cinema: Funf Patronenhulsen/Five Cartridges 3. Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War in cinema: !Viva La Muerte!/Long Live Death and L' arbre de Guernica/The Tree of Guernica 4. Film under Franco: La caza/The Hunt and El jardin de las delicias/The Garden of Delights 5. Re-cycling Basque history: patterns of the past in Vacas/Cows 6. No laughing matter? Comedy and the Spanish Civil War in cinema 7. Ghosts of the past: El espinazo del Diablo/The Devil's Backbone 8. A story from the Spanish revolution: Land and Freedom/Tierra y Libertad 9. The search for truth in Soldados de Salamina/Soldiers of Salamina Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index -- .

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Lucidly written and informed by a nuanced familiarity with the history of the Spanish Civil War, David Archibald's book is must reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and this seminal historical event. Whether dealing with the Popular Front romanticism of Sam Wood's adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls, the surrealist-inflected anti-authoritarianism of Arrabal's Viva la Muerte, or the anti-Stalinist fervor of Loach's Land and Freedom, Archibald ably disentangles a number of the thorniest political and aesthetic controversies spawned by a conflict that remains more pertinent than ever. -- Richard Porton.

Lucidly written and informed by a nuanced familiarity with the history of the Spanish Civil War, David Archibald's book is must reading for anyone interested in the relationship between cinema and this seminal historical event. Whether dealing with the Popular Front romanticism of Sam Wood's adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls, the surrealist-inflected anti-authoritarianism of Arrabal's Viva la Muerte, or the anti-Stalinist fervor of Loach's Land and Freedom, Archibald ably disentangles a number of the thorniest political and aesthetic controversies spawned by a conflict that remains more pertinent than ever. -- Richard Porton

Author Information

David Archibald is Lecturer in Theatre Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow -- .

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