Spanish Cinema Against Itself

Spanish Cinema against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s--with the work of Luis Bu�uel and Salvador Dal�, experimentalist Jos� 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.

1. This book is a theoretical study that explores understudied filmmakers, producers, and film collectives in Spanish cinema. It demonstrates how this marginal, experimental, and politically militant cinema works against dominant national narratives in Spanish.

2. By exploring this Spanish counter history this book also considers the broader role such cinema has played in transnational settings.

3. Author Steven Marsh is an established scholar of Spanish cinema.