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SPANISH CINEMA (SPAN 397PP)

TOPICS FOR FINAL PAPER

                                                                                    Fall 2015

Final Paper: Please, pick a topic from the list below for your final research paper. The paper has to have a minimum of six pages, Times New Roman 12. Since it is a research paper, you need also to consult and use the bibliographical sources that have been posted in BELOW. Final paper is due Saturday, December 31, at midnight.

1. Cinema as a Reflection of Society
2. A heroine’s itinerary from dependency upon the male to a position unfettered by patriarchy
3. The New Moral and Social Order in Jamón Jamón, Women on the Verge and All About My Mother
4. The Filmic Representation of Multicultural and Multiracial Spain
5. Constructing Alterity in Spanish Cinema
6. Sexual Politics: The Evolving Role of Women in Spanish Cinema
7. Representation of a New Age: Sexual and Racial Democracy
8. Representation of a Closed and Old Age: Social and Sexual Tradition
9. Construction of Different Identities
10. Color and Visual Flair in Almodóvar’s Films
11. Hollywood in Almodóvar’s Movies
12. Queering of Spanish Society in Almodóvar and Other Film Directors
13. Stylization and Artificiality in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
14. Cinematic and Narrative Technique in Almodóvar’s Movies
15. The Role of the Mother in Spanish Cinema
16. Parody in the Movies of Almodóvar and Other Directors
17. Melodrama in Almodóvar and Other Directors
18. Representation of the New Spanish Society
19. Blurring of Boundaries and Differences in Spanish Cinema
20. Feminine Desire in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
21. Use of Other Media in Almodóvar’s Cinema
22. The Postmodernist Onslaught in Almodóvar’s Cinema
23. Gender Identity as Target of Parody in Spanish Cinema
24. Male Representation in Spanish Cinema or the Deconstruction of Masculinity
25. Gender-Bending or Gender Instability in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
26. De/Reconstruction of Codified Myths and Institutions of Spanish Culture
27. Cultural and Personal Displacement in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
28. Self-Reflexivity or Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
29. The Representation of Desire
30. The Female Gaze in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
31. Camping and Transvestism in Almodóvar’s Cinema
32. Exaggeration, Pastiche and Collapse of Boundaries in Spanish Cinema
33. Sex and Violence in Spanish Cinema
34. Representation of a New Post-Francoist Cultural Esthetic 
35. Madrid as the Space for the Reformulation of Spanish Cultural Values
36. The City as the Embodiment of Female Self-Affirmation and Liberation
37. The Imagining of a New Social and Moral Order in Spanish Cinema
38. Subversion of Patriarchy in Spanish Cinema
39. “Anything Goes’ as the Motto for Contemporary Spanish Cinema
40. The Carnivalesque: Strategies of Subversion in Spanish Cinema
41. The Subversion of Traditional Film Narrative in Almodóvar
42. The Objectivization of the Male Body
43. Gender Violence
44. The Racial Others and Immigration
45. Woman as Object in Spanish Cinema
46. Female Emancipation
47. The Civil War Discourse
48. Monstrosity in Spanish Cinema
49. Complicity with Patriarchal Discourse and Assertion Against it
50. Traditional Spanish Machismo
51. Self-consciously Constructed Cinema
52. Social Issues (Immigration, Domestic Violence, Drugs and aids) Cinema
53. Gender and Sexuality as Performance
54. Juxtaposition of Reality and Fantasy
55. Any Topic of Your Choice

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SPANISH CINEMA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I.  Books in the Reference area at the library

Schwarz, Ronald.  Spanish Film Directors (1950-1985: 25 Profiles).  Metuchen, NJ: The

Scarecrow Press, 1986

----.  The Great Spanish Films.  Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press. 

II. Other Works on Spanish Film

Alberich, Ferrán.  Cuatro años de cine español.  Madrid, 1991.

Bacarisse, Pamela.  Carnal Knowledge.  Pittsburg:  Ediciones Tres Rios, 1991.

Benavet, Francisco Marís.  Cine español de los 90:  Diccionario de películas directores y

temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero, 2000.

Besas, Peter.  Behind the Spanish Lens: Spanish Cinema under Fascism and Democracy. 

Denver: Arden Press, 1985.

Cabello Castellet, George, Jaume Martí-Olivella, and Guy H. Wood, eds.  Cine-Lit: Essays on

Peninsular Film and Fiction. Corvallis, OR: Portland State University, Oregon State

University, Reed College, 1992.

Caparrós Lera, J. M.  El cine español de la democracia: De la muerte de Franco al "cambio"

socialista (1975-1989). Barcelona:  Anthropos, 1992.

_______ El cine de nuestros días (1994-1998).  Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, 1999.

Caparrós Lera, J. M. et al.  Las grandes películas del cine español.  Madrid: Ediciones JC, 2007.

Crusells, Magí.  Cine y Guerra civil española: imagines para la memoria.  Madrid: Ediciones

            JC, 2006.

Davies, Ann.  “Male Sexuality and Basque Separatism in Two Films by Imanol Uribe.”

 Hispanic Reserch Journal, Vol 4, No. 2, June 2003, 121-132.

Deveny, Thomas G.  Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Metuchen, NJ: The           Scarecrow Press, 1993. (Films about the Spanish Civil War).

______ Contemporary Spanish Film from Fiction.  Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

D’Lugo, Marvin. “Bigas Luna’s Jamón, Jamón: Remaking the National Spanish Cinema in

Spain Today: Essays on Literature, Culture, Society. Eds. José Colmeiro, Christina

Dupláa, Patricia Greene and Juana Sabadell. Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1995

D’Lugo, Marvin.  Bigas Luna’s Huevos de oro: Regional Art, Global Commerce. Journal of

Hispanic Cultural Studies, 1997;1:63-76.

Edwards, Gwynne.  Indecent Exposures: BuñueI, Saura, Erice & Almodóvar. Marion Boyars,

1995.

España, Rafael de.  Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Film-Makers and Film.  Westport, CT:

Greenwood Press, 1994.

Evans, Jo.  “Imanol Uribe’s La muerte de Mikel:Policing the Gaze/Mind the Gap.”  Bulletin of

Hispanic Studies, LXXVI (1999), 101-109.

Evans, Peter William, ed.  Spanish Cinema:  The Auteurist Tradition.  Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1999.

 Fiddian, Robin W.  Challenges to Authority : Fiction and Film in Contemporary Spain. London:

Tamesis Books, 1988.

Font, Domènec.  Del azul al verde: El cine español durante el franquismo.Barcelona, Editorial

 Avance, 1976.

García Fernández, Emilio.  Historia ilustrada del cine español. Barcelona: Planeta, 1985.

García Fernández, Emilio C.  El cine español contemporáneo.  Barcelona, 1992.

García López, Palmira y Joaquín T. Cánovas Belchi.  Catálogo del cine español: Películas de

ficción.  Madrid: Filmoteca Nacional, 1993.

Gies, David T. ed.  Modern Spanish Culture.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Gómez B. de Castro, Ramiro.  La producción cinematográfica española: de la transición a la

democracia.  Bilbao, 1989.

Gómez Mesa, Luis.  La literatura española en el cine nacionaI: 1907-1971.  Madrid: Filmoteca

Nacional de España, 1978.

Gubern, Roman et al.  Historia del cine español.  Madrid: Cátedra, 1995.

Higginbotham, Virginia.  Spanish Film under Franco.  Austin: Texas University Press, 1988.

Hopewell, John.  Out of the Past: Spanish Cinema after Franco.  London: BFI Books, 1986.

______ “Art and a Lack of Money”: The Crises of the Spanish Film Industry, 1977-1990."

Quarterly Review of Film and Video 13.4 (1991): 113-22.

Jaime, Antoine.  Literatura y cine en España (1975-1995).  Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2000.

Jordan, Barry and Rikki Morgan-Tomosunas.  Contemporary Spanish Cinema.  Manchester:

Manchester University Press, 1998.

Jordan, Barry and Rikki Morgan-Tomosunas.  Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies. 

London, Arnold, 2000

Kinder, Marsha.  Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain.  Berkeley:

University of California Press, 1993.

Llinás, Francisco.  Cuatro años de cine español.  Madrid, 1987.

Luqui, Joaquín.  Treinta años de diseño gráfico en el cine español.  Madrid, 1987.

Martin-Márquez, Susan.  Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema.  Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 1999.

Méndez-Leite, Fernando.  Historia del cine español, Partes I and II.  Madrid: Ediciones Rialp,

1965.

Miró, Pilar. "Ten Years of Spanish Cinema." Literature, the Arts, and Democracy: Spain in the

Eighties.  Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.  Published originally

in Spanish, "Diez años de cine español." La cultura española en el postfranquismo. Diez años de cine, cultura y literatura (1975-1985).  Eds. Samuel Amell y Salvador García Castaneda. Madrid: Playor, 1988.27-32.

Monteath, Peter.  The Spanish Civil War in Literature, Film, and Art: An International

Bibliographv of Secondary Literature.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Monterde, José Enrique.  Veinte años de cine español 1973-1992.  Un cine bajo la paradoja. 

Barcelona: Paidós, 1993.

Olney, Ian. “Repetition (with difference) and Ludic Deferral in the Later Films of Luis

Buñuel.” Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 2001, Vol 18 Issue 1, p71, 12p.

Payán, Miguel Juan.  El cine español.  Madrid:  Ediciones JC, 2001. (Interviews)

Smith, Paul Julian.  Vision Machines.  London: Verso, 1996.

Smith, Paul Julian. Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film. 

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

 Soria, Florentino and Jesús González Requena.  La comedia en el cine español.  Madrid, 1986.

 Spanish Soundtrack Videocassettes, Films ans Slides/Sound Programs Available from

The National Audiovisual Center.  Washington: National Archives and Records

Administration, 1987.

Stone, Rob.  Spanish Cinema.  Essex, England: Pearson Educational Limited, 2002.

Talens, Jenaro and Santos Zunzunegui, eds.  Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema.

 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Torres, Augusto M.  Cine Español: Diccionario Espasa.  Madrid: Espasa, 1996.

Triana-Toribio, Núria.  Spanish National Cinema.  New York: Rutledge, 2003.

Vallean, Marjorie A.  The Spanish Civil War in American and European Films.  Ann Arbor:

UMI Research Press, 1982.

Vallés Copeiro del Villa, Antonio.  Historia de la política de fomento del cine español. 

Valencia, 1992

III.  Bibliography on Luis Buñuel

Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R.  Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema. Berkeley:

University of California Press, 2003.

Aranda, J. Francisco.  Luis Buñuel: A Critical Biography.  Trans. David Robinson.  London: Secker & Warburg, 1975. Translation of Luis Buñuel, biografía crítica. Barcelona: Lumen, 1969.

Aub, Max.  Conversaciones con Buñuel.  Madrid: Aguilar, 1985.

Pérez Bastías, Luis.  Las dos caras de Luis Buñuel.  Barcelona: Royal Books, 1994.

Buache, Breddy. The Cinema of Luis Buñuel.  Tras. Peter Graham. New York: Tantivy- Barnes,

1973. Translation of Luis Buñuel.  Lausanne: La Cité, 1970.

Buñuel, Luis.  My Last Breath.  London: Fontana, 1985.

Colina, José de la and Tomás Pérez Turrent.  Objects of Desire: Conversations with Luis Buñuel.

Trans. Paul Lenti. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1992.

Connelly, Caryn and Juliet Lynd.  “Virgins, Brides and Devils in Disguise: Buñuel Does

Mexican Melodrama.”  Qarterly Review of Film & Video, Vol. 18(3), pp. 235-256.

Durgnat, Raymond. Luis Buñuel.  London: Studio Vista, 1964.

Edwards, Gwynne.  The Discreet Art of Luis Buñuel.  Boston: Marion Boyars, 1982.

______ Indecent Exposures: Buñuel, Saura, Erice & Almodóvar.  New York: Marion Boyars,

1995.  26-70.

Evans, Peter.  The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire.  Oxford: Oxford University

            Press, 1995.

Fiddian, Robin W. and Peter W. Evans.  “Viridiana and the Death Instinct” in Challenges to

Authority:  Fiction and Film in Contemporary Spain.  London: Tamesis Books, 1988.

Fuentes, Víctor.  La mirada de Buñuel: cine, literatura y vida.  Madrid: Tabla Rasa, 2005.

Grange, Frèdèric (with Carlos Rebolledo).  Luis Buñuel.  Paris: Editions Universitaires, 1964.

Higginbotham, Virginia.  Luis Buñuel.  Boston: Twayne, 1979.

Monegal, Antonio.  Luis Buñuel de la literatura al cine: una poética del objeto.  Barcelona:

Anthropos, 1993.

Kirou, Ado.  Luis Buñuel.  Paris: Seghers, 1962.

Sánchez Vidal, Agustín.  Luis Buñuel: Obra cinematográfica.  Madrid: Ediciones I. C., 1984.

______ Luis Buñuel.  Madrid: Cátedra, 1991.

Schwarze, Michael.  Luis Buñuel.  Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1988.

Sánchez Vida, Agustín.  El mundo de Luis Buñuel.  Zaragoza: Caja e Ahorros de la Inmaculada

de Aragón, 1993.

Wood, Michael.  Belle de Jour.  London: British Film Institute, 2000.

IV. Bibliography on Carlos Saura

Brasó, Enrique.  Carlos Saura.  Madrid: Taller Ediciones JB, 1974.

D'Lugo, Marvin.  The Films of CarlosSaura.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

Edwards, Gwynne.  Indecent Exposures: Buñuel, Saura, Erice & Almodóvar.  New York:

             Marion Boyars, 1995.  71-131.

Hidalgo, Manuel. Carlos Saura.  Madrid: Ediciones I. C., 1981.

Oms, Marcel.  Carlos Saura.  Paris: Edilig, 1981.

Sánchez Vidal, Agustín.  El cine de Carlos Saura.  Zaragoza: Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada,

1988.

V.  Bibliography on Víctor Erice

Arocena, Carmen.  Víctor Erice.  Madrid: Cátedra, 1996

Deleyto, Celestino.  “Women and Other Monsters: Frankstein and the Role of the Mother in El

espíritu de la colmena.”  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, LXXXVI (1999), 39-51.

Evans, Peter.  "El espíritu de la colmena.  The Monster, the Place of the Father and Growing Up

In the Dictatorship." Vida Hispánica 31.3 (1982).

Edwards, Gwynne.  Indecent Exposures: Buñuel,  Saura, Erice & Almodóvar.  New York:

           Marion Boyars, 1995. 132-63.

Riley, E. C.  "The Story of Ana in El espíritu de la colmena.”  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 61

           (1984). 

Smith, Paul Julian.  "Whispers and Rapture." Sight and Sound 4  (1993): 28-29.

Xon de Ros.  “Innocence Lost: Sound and Silence in El espíritu de la colmena.”  Bulletin of

Hispanic Studies, LXXVI (1999), pp. 27-37.

VI.  Bibliography on Pedro Almodóvar

Allinson, Mark.  A Spanish Labyrinth:  The Films of Pedro Almodóvar.  New York: I. B. Tauris

Publishers, 2001.

Albaladejo, Miguel, et al.  Los fantasmas del deseo: el cine de Pedro Almodóvar.  Madrid, 1988.

Blanco, Francisco ("Boquerini").  Pedro Almodóvar.  Madrid: Ediciones J.C., 1989.

D'Lugo, Marvin.  "Almodóvar's City of Desire."  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 13.4

            (1991): 47-65.

Edwards, Gwynne.  Indecent Exposures.  Buñuel, Saura, Erice & Almodóvar. Marion Boyars,

            1995. 164-214.

Evans, Peter Williams.  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.  London: British Film

Institute, 1996.

García de León, María Antonia and Teresa Maldonado.  Pedro Almodóvar: la otra España cañi. 

Ciudad Real: Biblioteca de Autores y Temas Manchegos, 1989.

Hall, Stuart.  "European Cinema on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" in Screening Europe:

and Identity in Contemporary European Cinema.  Ed. Duncan Petrie.  London, 1992.

15-53.

Holguín, Antonio.  Pedro Almodóvar.  Madrid: Cátedra, 1994.

Madison, Stephen.  “All About Women: Pedro Almodóvar’s and the Hetrosocial Dynamic.”

Textual Practice 14(2), 2000, 265-284.

Méjean, Jean-Max.  Pedro Almodóvar.  Barcelona: Ediciones Robinbook, 2007.

Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki. “Narrative, Desire and Critical Discourse in Pedro Almodóvar’s

Carne trémula.”  Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol 8, No. 2, 2002,

185-199.

Naitza, Sergio and Valeria Patané, eds.  ¡Folle, folle, folle, Pedro!  Cagliari, 1992.

Pally, Marcia.  “The Politics of Passion: Pedro Almodóvar and the Camp Esthetic.”  Cineaste

(1990), Vol 18 Issue 1, p32, 13bw.

Polimeni, Carlos.  Pedro Almodóvar y el kitsch español.  Madrid: Campo de Ideas, 2004.

Sánchez Biosca, Vicente.  "El elixir aromático de la postmodernidad o la comedia según Pedro

Almodóvar".  Escritos sobre el cine español 1973-198.  Valencia, 1989. 111-24.

Shaw, Deborah. “Men in High Heels:  The Feminine Man and Performances of Feminity in

                                    Tacones Lejanos by Pedro Almodóvar.”  Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies,

            Vol 6, No. 1, 2000.

Smith, Paul Julian.  Laws of Desire:  Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Literature and

            Film, 1960-1990. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Smith, Paul Julian.  Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Almodóvar.  London: Verso, 1994.

Smith, Paul Julian.  “Kika: Vision Machine.” In Spain Today:  Esssays on Literature, Culture,

Society. Ed. José Colmeiro et al. Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1995, 83-92.

Strauss, Frédéric.  Pedro Almodóvar: Un cine visceral (Conversaciones con Frédéric Strauss).

  Madrid: Ediciones El País, 1994.

Strauss, Frédéric.  Conversaciones con Pedro Almodóvar.  Madrid:  Ediciones Akal, 2001.

Strauss, Frédéric.  Almodóvar on Almodóvar.  Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Vernon, Kathleen and Barbara Morris, eds.  Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro

 Almodóvar.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Williams, Bruce.  “Palygrounds of Desire: Almodóvar, Fetishism, and the Male Ideal Ego.”

Journal of Video and Film, Summer 2000, Vol 52 Issue 2, p28, 13p, 4bw.

Yarza, Alejandro.  Un canibal en Madrid: La sensibilidad camp y el reciclaje de la historia en

el cine de Pedro Almodóvar.  Madrid: Ediciones Libertarias, 1999.

VII.         History of Modern Spain

Anderson, James Maxwell.  The Spanish Civil War.  Wesport: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Arango, E. Ramón.  Spain: Democracy Regained.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.

Gordon, Thomas & Max Morgan Witts.  Guernica: The Crucible of World War II.  Chelsea, MI:

First Scarborough House, 1991.

Hodges, Gabriel Ashford.  Franco: A Concise Biography. New York: St. Martins’s Press, 2000.

Moa, Pío.  Los orígenes de la guerra civil española.  Madrid: Ediciones Encientro, 1999.

Palomares, Cristina.  The Quest for Survival After Franco.  Portland: Sussex Academic Press,

2004.

Payne, Stanley G.  The Spanish Revolution.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1970.

Pierson, Peter.  The History of Spain.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.