{"product_id":"spanish-meta-art-and-contemporary-cinema-guillermo-rodrguez-romaguera-9798765101353","title":"Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema: Mirrors to the Unconscious","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan cinema reveal its audience's most subversive thinking? Do films have the potential to project their viewers' innermost thoughts making them apparent on the screen? This book argues that cinema has precisely this power, to unveil to the spectator their own hidden thoughts. It examines case studies from various cultures in conversation with Spain, a country whose enduring masterpieces in self-reflexive or meta-art provide insight into the special dynamic between viewer and screen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFramed around critical readings of Miguel de Cervantes' \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, Diego Velázquez' \u003ci\u003eLas meninas\u003c\/i\u003e and Luis Buñuel's \u003ci\u003eUn chien andalou\u003c\/i\u003e, this book examines contemporary films by Víctor Erice, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Alejandro Amenábar, Lucrecia Martel, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Jonze, Andrzej Zulawski, Fernando Pérez, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg to illustrate how self-reflexivity in film unbridles the mental repression of film spectators. It proposes cinema as an uncanny duplication of the workings of the brain - a doppelgänger to human thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guillermo Rodr?guez-Romaguera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798765101353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Guillermo Rodr?guez-Romaguera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739147358463,"sku":"9798765101353","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89214223-44cf-4498-beee-754871764127.jpg?v=1743277356","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spanish-meta-art-and-contemporary-cinema-guillermo-rodrguez-romaguera-9798765101353","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}