Includes filmography (pages [227]-232), bibliographical references (pages [233]-254) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : film, religion, and the Desarrollismo period -- Lighting sainthood in the time of technocracy -- Praying for development in post-Vatican II comedies -- Gender and modernization in nun films -- Narratives of suspicion: religion in the Nuevo cine español -- Conclusion : Spanish cinema at the intersection of religion and politics.
Summary:
"In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Perez 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. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, "nun films," which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Perez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. This is a provocative and original analysis of the significance of religion not from a theological point of view, but rather as a socio-political force and cultural determinant in the Spanish public sphere of this period, known as desarrollismo (development years) from 1960-1975"-- Provided by publisher.
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