“…Vicky Cristina Barcelona…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / El espíritu de la colmena/The spirit of the beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973): To kill a mocking bird as neglected inter-text / Cet obscur objet du désir/That obscure object of desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977): Buñuel's technique / Ocaña: retrat intermittent/Ocaña: an intermittent portrait (Ventura Pons, 1977): the Mediterranean movida and the passing away of Francoist Barcelona / El dorado (Carlos Saura, 1987): the keys to El Dorado / El sol del membrillo/The quince tree sun (Víctor Erice, 1992): moving pictures - painting, drawing and filmmaking / Vacas/Cows (Julio Medem, 1992): from Goya's dining room via Apocalypse now / Tesis/Thesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996): delights and follies in filmic discourse / Un instante en la vida ajena/A glimpse of other lives (José Luis López-Linares, 2003): domesticating the documentary archive / Ninette (José Luis Garci, 2005): Paris revisited / El laberinto del fauno/Pan's labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006): Spanish horror / La noche de los girasoles/The night of the sunflowers (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, 2006): palimpsests of genre, palimpsests of violence / En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the city of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, 2007) and the durée of a dérive / Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008): Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem acting strangely / La mujer sin cabeza/The headless woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008): silence, historical memory and metaphor / Los abrazos rotos/Broken embraces (Pedro Almodóvar, 2009): talking cures / V.O.S. …”