The Cinema of Álex de la Iglesia
Peter Buse, Núria Triana-Toribio, Andrew Willis
Álex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodóvar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, is still making 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 -- receives here the first full length study of his work. Breaking away from the pious tradition of acclaiming art-house auteurs, The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia 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.
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Year:
2008
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
208
ISBN 10:
0719071364
ISBN 13:
9780719071362
Series:
Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers
File:
PDF, 4.15 MB
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english, 2008