The Child in Spanish Cinema

by Sarah Wright and Sarah Wright

Book Overview

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema.

Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror', science-fiction, social realism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784993794
• ISBN13: 9781784993795
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"