Frequently Cited Works

These works were referenced the most in the literature held by UNC Chapel Hill. For in-depth studies or analysis of Spanish film, it would be wise to consult these titles, as they may provide excellent guidance for a project.

PN1993.5.S7 K5 1993 (Davis Stacks)
Kinder, Marsha. (1993). Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Within the introduction, Marsha Kinder describes this work as investigating how deep the blood - the current of national identity - flows in something like cinema. This is a comprehensive study on authors, filmmakers, and movements in Spain. It focuses on the theme of exile and diaspora and the movement from the traditional cinema and culture in Spain to a New Spanish Cinema. 
Includes an extensive Bibliography, complete with articles of note.

PN1993.5.S7 R35 1997 (Davis and Undergrad Stacks)
Kinder, Marsha (ed.). (1997). Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation. Durham: Duke University Press.

This was originally meant to be a supplement to Marsha Kinder's article in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1991. It is a collection of critical essays divided into three major sections: “Historical Recuperation”, “Sexual Reinscription”, and “Marketing Transfiguration”. As Kinder remarks in the introduction, this set of essays refer to the “crucial role played by the mass media in this ongoing process of refiguring the nation”. The essays also feature a focus on the director Pedro Almodóvar. An extensive bibliography is included.

PN1993.5.S7 B47 1985 (Davis Stacks)
Besas, Peter. (1985). Behind the Spanish Lens: Spanish Cinema under Fascism and Democracy. Denver: Arden Press.

Considered to be an important work by Marsha Kinder, this book encompasses the gradual changes made in aesthetics in Spanish film from the period under Franco's dictatorship to contemporary film. Includes interviews with directors and a directory of the filmmakers interviewed in the Appendices.