The Cinema of Alex de la Iglesia
Peter Buse, Nuria Triana-Toribio, and Andrew Willis
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 t ... More
Keywords: Spanish film, director, Acción mutante, Muertos de risa, popular auteur, avant-garde, horror, comedy, esperpento, sainete costumbrista
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719071362 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719071362.001.0001 |
