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Introduction: God and the Spanish director -- Luis Buñuel and the reinvention of Catholicism -- Looking back in anger: iconoclastic and anticlerical roots -- Catholicism reinvented in later films -- The religious genre and its discontents in Francoist Spain -- History of the Christian religious genre film -- Preaching to the converted: missionaries and apparitions of Mary -- Lives of the saints as measures of holiness and citizenship -- New genres and new wave directors of the sixties and seventies -- Breaking boundaries: post-Franco and contemporary directors -- Variations on a theme of national identity: reclaiming St. Teresa -- Pedro Almodóvar and the gathering storm -- Postmodern skepticism versus the need to believe -- Conclusion: religion and the Spanish habitus. |
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Text in English. |
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ISBN |
9780472120772 (electronic bk.) |
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0472120778 (electronic bk.) |
Standard no. |
40024490324 |
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