Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain's Development Years, 1960-1975
Jorge Perez, "Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain's Development Years, 1960-1975 "
English | ISBN: 1487501080 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1487501080 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain’s modernization processes.
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