Lope de Vega on Spanish Screens, 1935–2020

Philip Allen

doi:10.5771/9781666911787

Summary

This book provides an in-depth examination and analysis of the film and television adaptations of Lope de Vega’s theatrical dramas that have appeared on Spanish screens since the mid-twentieth century. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Allen draws on critical media literacy studies, film and adaptation studies, literary theory, cultural studies, and cultural historiography in his analysis. Allen argues that, given the problematic reception of Lope’s works in Francoist Spain, the canonical author never held a privileged position in the dictatorial propaganda machine. In fact, adaptations of Lope’s theater productions were subject to the same rigorous scrutiny, if not more, than any other screenplays that landed under censorship’s microscope. Allen analyzes adaptations produced during and after the nearly forty-year dictatorship and questions whether the adaptors of the democratic era created films and television shows that can sufficiently demonstrate how the spirit of Lope’s life and works can resonate with modern audiences. Scholars of film and television studies, adaptation studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1177-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1178-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 248
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. On National Identity, Nationalism, and Patriotism No access
2. 1. Lope in Spanish Popular Culture throughout the Ages No access
3. From the Stage to the Screen: Adaptations of Theatrical Texts No access
4. Contents and Chapter Outlines No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Film that Never Was (Twice) No access
2. Approaches to the Adaptation No access
3. Censoring the Estrella No access
4. Notes No access
1. On Power, Authority, Spanishness, National Identity, and Established Social Order No access
2. “All for One and One for All”: Franco’s Fuenteovejuna No access
3. Virtuous Villagers and Troublesome Tyrants No access
4. The Shadow of the Empire No access
5. The Shadow of the Moors No access
6. Public Consumption and Cultural Impact No access
7. Notes No access
1. Post-Francoist Characterizations of Lope’s Female Protagonists No access
2. Artistic Reactions to Previous Adaptations No access
3. The Contemporaneity of Lope’s Dramas No access
4. Critical Reception and Cultural Impact No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Lope, the Patriot No access
  2. Lope, the Womanizer and/or Hopeless Romantic No access
  3. Lope, the Literary Genius No access
  4. Lope, the Audacious No access
  5. Lope, Our Contemporary No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Shadow of the Bard No access
2. Beyond the Phoenix No access
3. The Future of the Phoenix No access
4. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 217 - 234
Index No access Pages 235 - 246
About the Author No access Pages 247 - 248