Confessional cinema: religion, film, and modernity in Spain's development years, 1960-1975

"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, rel...

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Published in:Toronto Iberic
Main Author: Pérez, Jorge 1976- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press [2017]
In: Toronto Iberic (24)
Series/Journal:Toronto Iberic 24
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Spain / Film / Religion (Motif) / Catholic church (Motif) / History 1960-1975
B Spain / Film / Catholic church (Motif) / Religion (Motif) / Nun (Motif) / History 1960-1975
RelBib Classification:CA Christianity
FA Theology
Further subjects:B Religion in motion pictures
B Spain History 1939-1975
B Motion Pictures (Spain) History
B Catholic Church In motion pictures
B Motion Pictures Religious aspects Catholic Church
B Spain Religion 20th century
B Spain Intellectual life 20th century
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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"--
ISBN:1487501080