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Staging Dissent: Cinematic Critical Realism in the Iberian Dictatorships (1950s-1960s)

Staging Dissent: Cinematic Critical Realism in the Iberian Dictatorships (1950s-1960s)

Ten Haaf, Rachel

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Book 39

Film StudiesGeneral World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 14, 2027

ISBN10: 1807812723
ISBN13: 9781807812720
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 14 2027
Pages: 176
Language: English

For three decades, Spanish and Portuguese cinema staged a quiet rebellion against the regimes that controlled it. Staging Dissent upends the standard story of postwar film history. Filmmakers under Franco and Salazar did not simply borrow Italian neorealism -- they built their own version of it, honed by dictatorships that outlasted Mussolini's by decades. The book pairs eight landmark films across four chapters, moving from Manuel Guimarães and Manuel Mur Oti in the 1950s to Carlos Saura and Fernando Lopes in the 1960s. Along the way, it traces how directors turned everyday spaces -- staircases, hospital wards, circus tents -- into sites where the camera could catch dictatorial spectacle in the act. Grounded in Guy Debord's theory of the spectacle and Jacques Rancière's writing on dissensus, the book reveals dissent hiding in plain sight. It reframes Iberian cinema as a major, internationally engaged tradition rather than a footnote to Italian film history -- sharp, rigorous, and long overdue reading for scholars of film, Iberian studies, and the cultural life of authoritarianism.

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