Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema
From Banderas to Bardem
ISBN13: 9780198159964ISBN10: 019815996X
Hardback,
240 pages
Mar 2003,
In Stock
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Description
Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema focuses on the careers of ten contemporary Spanish film stars, including Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, and Eduardo Noriega. Set in the double context of new approaches to Star Studies and current debates around masculinity, this is a key contribution to the growing fields of Spanish Cultural and Film Studies.Features
- A key contribution to the growing fields of Spanish Cultural and Film Studies
- Focuses on the careers of ten Spanish film actors, including Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, and Eduardo Noriega
- Combines close study of performance in specific scenes with the theoretical paradigms of Star Studies and research into masculinities
About the Author(s)
Until his appointment to a Chair in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies in 1995, Chris Perriam was Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Durham. His publications include Desire and Dissent: An Introduction to Luis Antonio de Villena (Berg 1995) and he is a co-editor of A New History of Spanish Writing: 1939 to the 1990s (OUP 2000).
