Spanish National Cinema Book

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
	A Spanish national director?	1
	Nations and nationalism	2
	Spanish nationalism	4
	The nation and its cinema	6
	Popular cinema and art cinema	9
	Methods	11
	Other national cinemas	12
	Glossary and filmography	13
2	Cinema in Spain from 1896 to 1939	14
	The rebirth of a nation?	14
	Spain seen by Spanish people	24
	The 'natural' audience of Spanish cinema	28
	Propagating Spanishness at war (1936-9)?	31
3	A constant concern for the popular classes, 1939-62	38
	Hispanidad in the national cinema	38
	Spanishness under siege	44
	'Very big things to be on a par with foreigners'	51
	Loci of debates: films of national interest	54
	Folkloric inclusions and exclusions	62
	Garcia Escudero's judgements of taste	65
4	For and against Franco's Spain, 1962-82	70
	Chicos de Garcia Escudero vs. Chicas de la Cruz Roja	70
	Continuity and the desire for change: Marisol in the 1960s	84
	What censorship created	95
5	How to 'reconquer' signs of identity, 1982-9	108
	Towards a dignified cinema for the nation	108
	A new locus of debate: La ley Miro	111
	The other 1980s	120
	Comedy and nationalism: the fluctuating fortunes of Pedro Almodovar as national filmmaker of the 1980s	132
6	Spanish cinema of the 1990s onwards: looking north but heading west	143
	The discourse on diversity	143
	New vulgarities: just when you thought that Spanish cinema was getting better ...	151
	Cine Social in the late 1990s and beyond	155
	Alex de la Iglesia	158
	The Others (Alejandro Amenabar, 2001)	162
	Notes	164
	Glossary	177
	Bibliography	182
	Filmography	193
	Index	202