Cinema At the Edges

<p> 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 gaze as the author shows highlighting the ways in which these directors make recourse to hybridity contact and interface to overcome the binary power dynamic previously thought to be a feature of cinema. This book explores their status as solely Spanish filmmakers while focusing on their diverse and immensely creative output offering new readings that engage with current debates in visual culture surrounding psychoanalytic theory phenomenology and theories of documentary practice.</p>