The Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia
The Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia
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Abstract
Álex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodóvar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era – Acción mutante, El día de la bestia, Muertos de risa – de la Iglesia receives here a full-length study of his work. Breaking away from the pious tradition of acclaiming art-house auteurs, the book tackles a new sort of beast: the popular auteur, who brings the provocation of the avant-garde to popular genres such as horror and comedy. It brings together Anglo-American film theory, an exploration of the legal and economic history of Spanish audio-visual culture, and a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish cultural forms and traditions (esperpento, sainete costumbrista) with a detailed textual analysis of all of de la Iglesia's seven feature films.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Acción mutante (1993): against the conspiracy of boredom
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El día de la bestia (1995): comedy, subcultures, television
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Perdita Durango (1997): the body, sex and Mexico
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Muertos de risa (1999): comedy, television, history
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La comunidad (2000): modernity and the cinematic past
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800 balas (2002): undoing the ignominy of boyhood
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Crimen ferpecto (2004): the mise-en-scène of mise-en-scène
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Conclusion
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End Matter
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