
This is the first book-length study of this major director's work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror.

Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has made a crucial contribution to contemporary Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as works of crude violence by those lamenting a 'lost golden age' of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoro's...