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- Arguably the single most important event in the history of cinema in Spain after 1975 was the official abolition of censorship in 1977, thus bringing to an end a system that allowed the state censor to cut or destroy a film during shooting and at pre- and post-shooting stages.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-modern-spanish-culture/culture-and-cinema-19751996/1370E7FCC0BFF217EC7FA4FA0817C7FFCulture and cinema, 1975-1996 (Chapter 19) - The Cambridge ...
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Apr 1, 2024 · Cinema offers a unique way to pin down 500 years of Spain’s fragmented, shifting identity from 1492 to 1992.
Feb 7, 2022 · Immediately after Franco’s death in 1975 and the disappearance of censorship, all previously prohibited themes found their way onto screen. Homosexuality, transsexuality, drug use and crime were the main ingredients for the post-dictatorial film industry.
Oct 27, 2016 · Since the 2000s, Spanish cinema has increasingly been displaced by television and the accessibility of films on the Internet. Recent scholarship, in fact, has shifted to include substantive studies of television and audiovisual links to Latin America.
Arguably the single most important event in the history of cinema in Spain after 1975 was the official abolition of censorship in 1977, thus bringing to an end a system that allowed the state censor to cut or destroy a film during shooting and at pre- and post-shooting stages.
Dec 13, 2021 · In the Spanish case, the art cinema formula basically applies not only to films which were acclaimed on the international scene – Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens), for instance, directed by Carlos Saura in 1975, the year of Francisco Franco’s death – but also to a few that had spectacular box office success in the domestic market but never ...
Professor Sally Faulkner leads the AHRC funded project 'A New History of Spanish Cinema' which aims to change the direction of studies of Spanish film history. It questions the over-use of labels such as 'art' or 'popular' cinema and proposes the 'middlebrow' as a new way of approaching Spanish film.
Oct 25, 2021 · The Spanish premiere of one of the most controversial films in the history of cinema took place at the Seminci in 1975, three and a half years after its release in the United States and Great Britain. How was this possible? The documentary A Forbidden Orange, by Pedro González Bermúdez, manages to unravel the mystery. And it does so at the ...
