Although children have proliferated in Spain's cinema since its inception, nowhere are they privileged and complicated in quite the same way as in the films of the 1970s and early 1980s, a period of radical political and cultural change for the nation as it emerged from almost four decades of repressive dictatorship under the rule of General Francisco Franco. In Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition, Sarah Thomas analyses the cinematic child within this complex historical conjuncture of a nation looking back on decades of authoritarian rule and forward to an uncertain future.
Examining films from several genres by four key directors of the Transition - Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Vìctor Erice, and Jaime de Armiñán - Thomas explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, and self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles. She demonstrates how the cinematic child that materializes in this period is a fundamentally shifting, oscillating, ambivalent figure that points toward the impossibility of fully comprehending the historical past and the figure of the other, while inviting an ethical engagement with each.
| ISBN: | 9781487504885 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2019 |
| Author: | Sarah Thomas |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Toronto Iberic |
| Genres: |
Films, cinema Film scripts and screenplays Ethnic studies Social and cultural history |
Although children have proliferated in Spain's cinema since its inception, nowhere are they privileged and complicated in quite the same way as in the films of the 1970s and early 1980s, a period of radical political and cultural change for the nation as it emerged from almost four decades of repressive dictatorship under the rule of General Francisco Franco. In Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition, Sarah Thomas analyses the cinematic child within this complex historical conjuncture of a nation looking back on decades of authoritarian rule and forward to an uncertain future.
Examining films from several genres by four key directors of the Transition - Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Vìctor Erice, and Jaime de Armiñán - Thomas explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, and self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles. She demonstrates how the cinematic child that materializes in this period is a fundamentally shifting, oscillating, ambivalent figure that points toward the impossibility of fully comprehending the historical past and the figure of the other, while inviting an ethical engagement with each.
Inhabiting the In-Between features in the following genres: Films, cinema, Film scripts and screenplays, Ethnic studies, Social and cultural history
Inhabiting the In-Between is available in Hardback, Ebook
Inhabiting the In-Between was written by Sarah Thomas and published by University of Toronto Press
Inhabiting the In-Between has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Toronto Iberic series