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Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War: Resistance and Guerrilla 1936-2010
Mercedes Maroto Camino
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Description for Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War: Resistance and Guerrilla 1936-2010
Hardcover. An investigation of the history of Spanish guerrilla fighters (the maquis), concentrating on their cinematic representations in film and documentary from the 1950s onwards. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; APFA; HBWP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War reconstructs the legacy of the Spanish Civil War through an investigation of the anti-Franco guerrilla of the 1940s and 1950s. The book explores the memory of Spanish resistance fighters and their civilian supporters, concentrating on their cinematic representations in films and documentaries released between 1953 and 2010. This research fits within the emerging comparative field of Memory Studies, which has grown considerably in the last two decades. Along those lines, the efforts of civil society to understand and come to terms with the past have gathered momentum in twenty-first century ... Read more
Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War reconstructs the legacy of the Spanish Civil War through an investigation of the anti-Franco guerrilla of the 1940s and 1950s. The book explores the memory of Spanish resistance fighters and their civilian supporters, concentrating on their cinematic representations in films and documentaries released between 1953 and 2010. This research fits within the emerging comparative field of Memory Studies, which has grown considerably in the last two decades. Along those lines, the efforts of civil society to understand and come to terms with the past have gathered momentum in twenty-first century ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230240551
SKU
V9780230240551
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About Mercedes Maroto Camino
MERCEDES MAROTO CAMINO is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University, UK. Her previous publications include Practising Places: Lazarillo, Saint Teresa and the Early Modern City; Producing the Pacific: Maps and Narratives (1567-1606); and Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794. She has also published extensively in journals, including International Journal of Iberian Studies, Studies in European Cinema, Modern Language Review and Hispanic ... Read more
Reviews for Film, Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War: Resistance and Guerrilla 1936-2010
'This book, a must-read volume, offers a deeply moving and extremely timely perspective on the Spanish guerrilla by their civilian supporters - an area insufficiently acknowledged in scholarly studies to date. Weaving discussions of films, documentaries and interviews with a sophisticated but jargon-free framework of theories on historical memory, Professor Camino has written a superb and thought-provoking study that will ... Read more