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By: Deborah Shaw

ISBN: 9780719097591
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the Mexican born directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron. The book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Barry Jordan

ISBN: 9781526139412
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Known for his spectacular imagery, memorable soundtracks and challenging subject matter, Alejandro Amenabar 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. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Barry Jordan

ISBN: 9780719075896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Known for his spectacular imagery, memorable soundtracks and challenging subject matter, Alejandro Amenabar 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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By: Ann Davies

ISBN: 9780719073649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first book-length study of this major director's work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Ann Davies

ISBN: 9781526139405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is the first book-length study of this major director's work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Dolores Tierney

ISBN: 9780719088445
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernndez, (1906-1986), one of Mexicos and Latin Americas most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernndez most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, Mara Candelaria).


(Paperback)

By: Robert Stone

ISBN: 9780719072017
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Sally Faulkner

ISBN: 9781526169716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolom casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational womens cinema. This book places Bartolom among other key auteurs of national Spanish, and transnational feminist, cinema.


(Hardback)

By: Isabel Santaolalla

ISBN: 9780719080586
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Andy Willis

ISBN: 9780719071379
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first book in English about lex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protg of Pedro Almodvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesias cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror.


(Hardback)

By: Deborah Martin

ISBN: 9780719090349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Situates Martel's features and unstudied short films in relation to trends in recent national and international filmmaking.


(Paperback)

By: Deborah Martin

ISBN: 9781526139429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Situates Martel's features and unstudied short films in relation to trends in recent national and international filmmaking.


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By: Ana Mara Sanchez-Arce

ISBN: 9780719074424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, showing how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. -- .


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By: Ana Mara Sanchez-Arce

ISBN: 9781526167125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, showing how Almodvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.


(Hardback)

By: Robert Stone

ISBN: 9780719072000
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Andy Willis

ISBN: 9780719071362
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The first book in English about lex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protg of Pedro Almodvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesias cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror.