Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel

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Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel Reading and Watching Narrative Texts

Norberto Mínguez-Arranz

ISBN: 0-275-97579-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97579-1

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240 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2002

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)

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Description: The novel and the film are two modes of representation based on different aesthetic tools, but both are capable of articulating narrative discourses. In Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel, author Norberto Minguez-Arranz offers a comparative analysis of the methods and mechanisms with which the novel and the film build their stories. A theoretical framework that that puts into perspective such concepts as specificity, representation, and point of view gives way to a comparative study of five Spanish postwar novels and their respective film adaptations: The Family of Pascual Duarte, Time of Silence, The Hive, El Bosque Animado, and Nuevas Amistades.

Revealing the existence of cinematic features of the novel and literary features of the cinema, the author examines the ways in which this interdependence has become a permanent aspect of both arts, with mutual influences and a great deal of nonexclusivity of properties. By using this particular time and place as his locus of analytical thought, Minguez-Arranz provides an invaluable examination of two of this century's major creative forms.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Literature, Cinema, and Other Arts
Historic Perspective
Theoretical Aspects
The Problem of Specificity
The Concept of Narrativity
Spatial and Temporal Dimensions
Point of View
Comparative Analysis
No Family for Pascual Duarte
The Spirited Forest
Reading/Watching The Hive
New Friendships: From the Literary Text to the Filmic Text
Time of Silence: From Verbal Polyphony to a Marked Filmic Enunciation
Conclusion
Appendices
Works Cited
Index

About the Author: NORBERTO MÍNGUEZ-ARRANZ is Professor of Communication at the University of Madrid./e He is the co-author of Principios de Teoria General de la Imagen and the editor of Literatura espanola y cine, as well as an editor of Telos, a journal devoted to communication, culture, and society in Spain and Latin America.

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