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The Cinema of Víctor Erice
An Open Window
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2007
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To coincide with the recent DVD release of The Spirit of the Beehive, this paperback collection of essays focuses on the work of acclaimed Spanish director, Víctor Erice. Originally published in hardcover under the title An Open Window, this expanded edition draws on original essays, reprints, and new translations from an international group of writers.
New to this edition are four essays from noted film scholars—including editor Linda C. Ehrlich—as well as three added essays from the filmmaker himself. Both the original and new material provide a deeper appreciation of Erice's three feature-length films—The Spirit of the Beehive [El espíritu de la colmena] (1973), El Sur (1982), and Dream of Light [aka The Quince Tree Sun, El sol del membrillo] (1992), as well as his shorter works, including his most recent accomplishment, La morte rouge (2006).
This anthology examines the aesthetic, historical, and sociological forces at work in Erice's films and includes an extensive interview with the director. This broad array of writings provides insight into not only three unforgettable films, but also into twentieth-century Spanish society, as well as world cinema. The Cinema of Víctor Erice: An Open Window will serve as an important resource to measure the career of this director who—along with Buñuel, Saura, and Almodóvar—has helped show the world the creative range of Spanish cinema. With additional essays, translations, and illustrations, this paperback edition explores new avenues of expression pursued by one of the most poetic of modern filmmakers.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-5884-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-0089-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
357
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Table of Contents No access
Editor's Note No access
Acknowledgments No access
The Translator's Art No access
Objects Suspended in Light No access
An Interview with Víctor Erice No access
Why do you Make Films? No access
Can you See Now? No access
To the Cinema, In Memoriam No access
Excerpts from Victor Brice No access
Screen: A Perilous Country No access
The Risks of Initiation into the Spirit No access
"I Am Ana": The Play of the Imagination in the Spirit of the Beehive No access
The War behind the Window: Notes on the Spirit of the Beehive No access
About The Spirit of the Beehive No access
Familial Discourse in the Spirit of the Beehive: The Parents' Estrangement No access
Childhood against the Light No access
Thirty–Three Scholarly Questions about El sur No access
A Narrative of Star–Cross'd Lovers No access
Living Stones, Dead Souls: The Other Side of the Map. El sur Novel and Film No access
Review: Dream of Light No access
Whispers and Rapture: On Politics and Art in the Films of Erice No access
Watching as a Painting Comes Slowly into Being No access
Projected Shadow No access
Interior Gardens: Dream of Light and the Bodegón Tradition No access
From Documenting the National and Its Subversion in a Democratic Spain No access
Excerpt from Interview with Antonio López García No access
From Velázquez's Mirror to Dream of Light: A Conversation about Film No access
The Dragon in My Life No access
Reality in Juan Marsé No access
Víctor Erice and "The only Time" No access
Silences: Víctor Erice's Use of Sound No access
Víctor Erice's Reasonable Doubts No access
Cinema and Poetry No access
Writing Cinema, Thinking Cinema... No access
Víctor Erice's La Promesa de Shanghai and Alumbramiento: The Promise of Words, the Promise of Time No access
Erice–Kiarostami: The Pathways of Creation No access
