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The Child in Spanish Cinema
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The Child in Spanish Cinema Hardcover - 2013

by Wright, Sarah

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Manchester Univ Pr, 2013. Hardcover. New. 189 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches.
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  • Title The Child in Spanish Cinema
  • Author Wright, Sarah
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manchester Univ Pr
  • Date 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0719090520
  • ISBN 9780719090523 / 0719090520
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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From the publisher

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.

Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror', science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Erice's The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Maas's El Bola and the Marisol films. The book also draws on a century of filmmaking in Spain and intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema.

This book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the areas of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies and cinema studies.

From the rear cover

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The films under discussion return to the theme of the child and the monster to explore the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.

Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror', science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Erice's The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Maas's El Bola and the Marisol films. The book also draws on a century of filmmaking in Spain and intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema.

This book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the area of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies, and cinema studies.

About the author

Sarah Wright is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London