Viridiana / by Porton, Richard

“…Viridiana (Motion picture)…”


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The cinema of Spain and Portugal

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Luis Buñuel by Higginbotham, Virginia, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Apprenticeship: the formative years -- The heroic exploration and the silent years -- The Mexican films: 1947-1960 -- Masterworks: character studies: Nazarin, Viridiana, Diary of a chambermaid, Simon of the desert, Belle de jour, Tristana -- Masterworks: social satires: The exterminating angle, The milky way, Discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, Phantom of liberty, That obscure object of desire -- The filmmaker as moralist.…”


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Dark laughter : Spanish film, comedy, and the nation by Egea, Juan F.

Table of Contents: “…Don Jaime's laughter: humor and perversion in 'Viridiana' -- 5. Modernizing desire: Fernán-Gómiz's 'El extraño viaje' -- 6. …”


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The making and unmaking of Francoist kitsch cinema : from Raza to Pan's Labyrinth by Yarza, Alejandro, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The petrified tears of General Franco : Kitsch and Facism in Jose Luis Saenz de Heredia's Raza -- Romancero Marroqui and the Francoist Kitsch politics of time -- Los ultimos de Filipinas : The Spatio-temporal coordinates of Francoism -- Surcos : Neorealism, film noir, and the puppet master -- Franco, ese hombre : From Kitsch-artist to Kitsch-man -- Viridiana : The world, the flesh , and the devil -- Balada triste de trompeta: Of ghosts and clowns -- Under the sign of Saturn : The labyrinth of moral choices in Francoist Spain.…”


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Gender and Spanish cinema

Table of Contents: “…Between the phobic object and the dissident subject: abjection and vampirism in Luis Bunuel's Viridiana / Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla -- Costume, identity and spectator pleasure in historical films of the early Franco period / Jo Labanyi -- Masculinity, monuments, and movement: gender and the city of Madrid in Pedro Almodovar's Carne tremula (1997) / Steven Marsh -- Madness, queenship, and womanhood in Orduna's Locura de amor (1948) and Aranda's Juana la loca (2001) / Celia Martin Perez -- New sexual politics in the cinema of the transition to democracy: de la Iglesia's El diputado (1978) / Alejandro Melero Salvador -- Borderline men: gender, place, and power in representations of Moroccans in recent Spanish cinema / Parvati Nair -- A psychoanalysis of La mujer mas fea del mundo (1999) / Eva Parrondo Coppel -- Gender and Spanish horror film / Tatjana Pavlovic -- Heterosexuality in Segunda piel (Gerardo Vera, 2000) and Sobrevivire (Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, 1999): strong women, or, the same old story? …”


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100 years of Spanish cinema

Table of Contents: “…El cochecito / Marco Ferreri ; Viridiana / Luis Buñuel -- The "liberal" dictatorship and its agony (1962-1975). …”


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