A History of Spanish Film: Cinema and Society 1910–2010 by Sally Faulkner

MLN ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 396-398
Author(s):  
Luis Martin-Estudillo
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Film ◽  
History Of

Bahía de Palma/Palma Bay (Bosch 1962): An allegory of late Francoism

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-375
Author(s):  
Alejandro Yarza
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Spanish Cinema ◽  
Spanish Film ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Blue Print

Famous for having been the first Spanish film to feature the Franco-banned bikinis, Bahía de Palma/Palma Bay (Bosch 1962) is generally seen as a frivolous footnote in the history of Spanish cinema, but it is also a pioneering aperturista film, that deserves closer examination as the blue print for late Francoist cultural productions of the 1960s and beyond. This article argues that Bahía de Palma is a veiled allegorical representation of the social and political contradictions that characterized Spain’s reintegration into the international world order after the dark and disastrous period of international isolation during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Spanish Erotic Cinema

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Silent Films ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Spanish Cinema ◽  
Spanish Film ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in silent films, the volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape (literally ‘undressing’) period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition. Reclaiming the importance of Spanish erotic cinema as a genre in itself, a range of international scholars demonstrate how the explicit depiction of sex can be a useful tool to illuminate current and historic social issues including ageism, colonialism, domestic violence, immigration, nationalisms, or women and LGBT rights. Covering a wide range of cinematic genres, including comedy, horror and melodrama, this book provides an innovative and provocative overview of Spanish cinema history and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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