CINEMA AT THE EDGES

The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan José Bigas Luna, and José Luis Guerín are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities. Their films examine the limitations of the cinematic gaz e, as the author shows, highlighting the ways in which these directors make recourse to hybridity, contact, and interface to overcom e the binary power dynamic previously thought to be a feature of cinema. This book explores their status as solely Spanish filmmak ers while f...[Read more]