Alejandro Amenábar
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| Title: | Alejandro Amenábar |
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| Description: | Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the ‘golden boy'of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the highest-grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004. This book is the first full-length study in English of Amenábar's shorts and feature films. It provides detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema and incorporates a reappraisal of his auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. An essential resource for students, scholars and fans of Amenábar, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, including professionals in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in the best of Spanish, European and world cinema. |
| Authors: | Barry Jordan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Categories: | ART / Film & Video, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the ‘golden boy'of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose brand virtually guarantees quality, big audiences and domestic box office success. He has directed three of the highest-grossing movies in Spanish film history and has enjoyed enormous international and critical acclaim, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Film for Mar Adentro/The Sea Inside, 2004. This book is the first full-length study in English of Amenábar's shorts and feature films. It provides detailed analysis of his engagement with popular film genres as the basis for an auteur cinema and incorporates a reappraisal of his auteurism as fundamentally decentred and shared. An essential resource for students, scholars and fans of Amenábar, the book will also appeal to a wider readership, including professionals in the film, media and culture industries as well as those who have a general interest in the best of Spanish, European and world cinema. |
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| ISBN: | 9780719075896 9781526139412 9781526141163 |
