Confessional Cinema Hardcover 1

Jorge Perez

In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Perez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain's modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, nun films, which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism.

9781487501082

English

University of Toronto Press

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Jorge Perez is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin

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