Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. Includes filmography.
Contents:
Introduction: God and the Spanish director -- One. Luis Buñuel and the Reinvention of Catholicism: Looking back in anger: iconoclastic and anticlerical roots; Catholicism reinvented in later films -- Two. The Religious Genre Film and its Discontents in Francoist Spain: History of the Christian religious genre film; Preaching to the converted: missionaries and apparitions of Mary; Lives of the saints as measures of holiness and citizenship; New genres and new wave directors of the sixties and seventies -- Three. Breaking Boundaries: Post-Franco and Contemporary Directors: Variations on a theme of national identity: reclaiming St. Teresa; Pedro Almodóvar and the gathering storm; Postmodern skepticism versus the need to believe -- Conclusion: religion and the Spanish habitus.
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