Spanish Cinema Against Itself

<p><i>Spanish Cinema against Itself</i> maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s--with the work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí experimentalist José Val de Omar and militant documentary filmmaker Carlos Velo--through to the contemporary period. Framed by film theory this book traces the works of understudied and non-canonical Spanish filmmakers producers and film collectives to open up alternate more cosmopolitan and philosophical spaces for film discussion. In an age of the post-national and the postcinematic Steven Marsh's work challenges conventional historiographical discourse the concept of national cinema and questions of form in cinematic practice.</p>