Spanish Film Cultures: The Making and Unmaking of Spanish Cinema (Cultural Histories of Cinema)

Synopsis

Introduction. Why Academies? -- Film Cultures -- Academicism : An Authority Over Film Cultures -- What Does Academicism Want? -- When The Academia? -- The House Is Built Of The Stones That Were Available. The Values And Their Origins -- Academic Foundations -- The Regime's Long Watch Over Cinema -- Policies And Organisations For A European Spain -- By Invitation Only -- No Free Lunch -- And The Winner Is.... The Academia's Less Public Awards -- Engoyados -- Voyage To Somewhere -- The Big Film Prizes Tell A Story -- Where The Tastes Of Audiences And Academicians Meet -- Galas -- Shaping The Televisual Spectacle From 2005 To 2011 -- Being Different : Almodóvar And The Academia. The Making Of An Outsider -- What Kind Of Outsider Is Almodóvar? -- Rogue Males, 'bad' Films And 'bad' Loyalties : Santiago Segura And Álex De La Iglesia. The Turn To Genre -- When The Winner Does Not Take It All -- Case One : Not Fit For Export And Not Fit For Goyas: Segura's Lethal Crisis (2011) -- Case Two : Academia Vs. De La Iglesia And The Internet -- There Is No Such Thing As A Weak Enemy. A Severe Case Of Cinephile Anxiety -- The Cinephile Habitus -- Avant-garde Vs. The National Cinema -- Moments Of Disruption And Anti-institutionalism : The Case Of La Soledad (2007) -- Transatlantic Academia. What Hollywood Wants...and What It Gets -- Tainted Love : Good Things Come From Bad Prizes -- A Prize, Compromise And Contradictions -- Ideal Latin America -- Challenges For The Academia : The Crossover Latin American Film At The Goyas -- Hispanic Transnational Collaborative Networks -- Epilogue. Nuria Triana-toribio. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 125-145) And Index.