Carlos Saura

by Willem, Linda M.

• ISBN13: 9781578064946
• ISBN10: 1578064945
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Thrust into the international spotlight in 1966 when The Hunt, his critique of the Franco regime, won the Silver Bear at Berlin, Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (b. 1932) has remained an abiding presence and frequent victor at worldwide cinema competitions ever since. He is well known for his Flamenco trilogy -- Blood Wedding, Carmen, and A Love Bewitched. He received Oscar nominations for Mama Turns a Hundred, Carmen, and Tango. Saura's movies are frequently ambiguous, sometimes controversial, and always narratively complex. In many of his films, such as Cria and Goya in Bordeaux, he creates sophisticated expressions of time and space by fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Linda M. Willem is professor of Spanish at Butler University

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Chronology	xvii
Filmography	xxv
From Black Spain to Silver Bears: Part One	3	(14)
Augusto M. Torres
Vicente Molina-Foix
New Interview with Carlos Saura on La prima Angelica [Cousin Angelica]	17	(5)
Enrique Braso
Interview with Carlos Saura	22	(10)
Juan Carlos Rentero
Carlos Saura: An Individualist in Conversation	32	(10)
Vicen Campos
Interview with Carlos Saura on Cria cuervos [Raise Ravens] and Elisa, vida mia [Elisa, My Life]	42	(10)
Enrique Braso
Interview with Carlos Saura	52	(13)
Antonio Castro
Interview with Carlos Saura	65	(7)
Enrique Alberich
Antonieta, Carlos Saura Between the Past and the Present	72	(12)
Valeria Ciompi
Los zancos [The Stilts] by Carlos Saura: Interview	84	(4)
Esteve Riambau
The Flamenco Trilogy	88	(8)
Patrick Schupp
Carlos Saura: The Culmination of a Dream	96	(7)
Pedro Calleja
Continuity, Rupture, Remembering: The Spanish Cinema During Franco's Time	103	(12)
Mechthild Zeul
Interview: Carlos Saura	115	(29)
Antonio Castro
The Apprenticeship of Life: Interview	144	(6)
Antonio Castro
Tango According to Saura	150	(6)
Paula Ponga
The Image and the Word: A Conversation with Filmmaker and Novelist Carlos Saura	156	(11)
Linda M. Willem
Interview: Carlos Saura	167	(4)
Jose Enrique Monterde
Index	171