I saw La Bola Negra last night and taught Muerte de un ciclista today. I was in the middle of class, teaching the flamenco scene, and Penelope Cruz's queering of Nationalist spectacle hit me like a ton of bricks.
I really think these films work in conversation in terms of not just how the regime is remembered, but how it is represented via spectacle and memory.
I honestly think this is the best Spanish Civil War movie I've seen, and it'll stick with me for a while.
Spain was ground zero for the financial takeover of housing--so it's no coincidence that it's where housing uprising is most clearly and powerfully emerging in a national-scale, mass form. Solidarity with the general strike.
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Aparece el libro, Anthony Bourdain, Filmmaker por Todd Kennedy https://t.co/D5zerlEzrM
Todd Kennedy, eleven-year summer resident of San Sebastian’s old town, has published a new book about Anthony Bourdain, the internationally celebrated chef who is also admired in the Basque Country for his particular interest and affection for this community. Anthony Bourdain, Filmmaker (Wayne State University Press) attempts to locate the cook turned international celebrity among the filmmakers that most influenced him. Kennedy studies the episodes of the shows, No Reservations and Parts Unkown, to argue that Bourdain’s capacity to understand other cultures by showing them on the small screen is best understood as documentary cinema.
Oh I LOVE this can of worms. Please, keep digging into why “close reading” and “the text itself” was the primary way students were taught to read in school as well as MFA programs. Why would historical-political contexts be discarded in literary analysis under capitalism?