Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amen�bar 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 Amen�bar'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 Amen�bar, 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.
| ISBN: | 9780719075896 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2012 |
| Author: | Barry Jordan |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 311 pages |
| Series: | Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers |
| Genres: |
Digital, video and new media arts Film history, theory or criticism Films, cinema |
Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amen�bar 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 Amen�bar'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 Amen�bar, 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.
Alejandro Amenàbar features in the following genres: Digital, video and new media arts, Film history, theory or criticism, Films, cinema
Alejandro Amenàbar is available in Hardback
Alejandro Amenàbar was written by Barry Jordan and published by Manchester University Press
Alejandro Amenàbar has 311 pages
Yes it is part of Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers series