A History of Spanish Film: Cinema and Society 1910-2010

‘There has been nothing quite like Sally Faulkner’s A History of Spanish Film. This lengthy and ambitious volume combines a compelling general account of a vital national cinema with brilliant close analyses of individual titles. Moreover it skillfully places artistic and cultural questions within social and historical contexts. This book is required reading for both those who already know Spanish cinema and those who would like to discover it.’ — Paul Julian Smith, Graduate Center, City University Of New York, Us Endorsement

‘This beautifully nuanced study gives the reader a series of intriguing new perspectives on the social crossovers produced by a cinema marked by class mobility and by realignments in taste in Spain. It concentrates on the active engagement of middle class culture — bizarrely under-estimated in most books on Spanish film — with fictions, markets and institutions. Sally Faulkner’s indispensable history reveals a different continuity and disparate set of Spanish images to the ones we might have thought we knew.’ —Chris Perriam, Professor Of Hispanic Studies, School Of Arts, Languages And Cultures, University Of Manchester, UK Endorsement