Alejandro Amenabar (eBook)

Barry Jordan (Autor)

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2019
320 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4116-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Known for his spectacular imagery, memorable soundtracks and challenging subject matter, Alejandro Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware ‘middlebrow’ cinema designed for global audiences. This is the first full-length study in English of the director's shorts and feature films, including Abre los ojos, The Others and Mar Adentro.

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Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenabar has become the 'golden boy' of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the highest-grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004. This book is the first full-length study in English of Amenabar's shorts and feature films. It provides detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema and incorporates a reappraisal of his auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. An essential resource for students, scholars and fans of Amenabar, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, including professionals in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in the best of Spanish, European and world cinema.

Autor

Barry Jordan is Professor of European Cinema and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Inhalt

1Young Orson, King Midas and the emerging auteur
2From film freak to jack-of-all-trades
3The violent image: Tesis
4Life, death and the Disneyland question: Abre los ojos
5Clean, quiet, scary movies: The Others
6Fighting to die: Mar Adentro
7The rage of unreason: Agora
8Afterword/post-script
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
• Zusatzinfo: 10 black & white illustrations
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Abre los Ojos • Ágora • Alejandro Amenábar • art film narration • auteur cinema • cinephilia • classical Hollywood narration • Film Audiences • Film form • Mar adentro • tesis • The Others • working practices
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-4116-7 / 1526141167
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-4116-3 / 9781526141163