religion, film, and modernity in Spain's development years, 1960-1975Pérez, Jorge1976-creatorauthor.textbibliographyHistory.Electronic books.onc20172017monographiceng1 online resource."In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Pérez 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. Pérez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. Confessional Cinema offers a provocative and original analysis of the significance of religion not from a theological point of view, but rather as a socio-political force and cultural determinant in the Spanish public sphere of this period, known as desarrollismo (development years) from 1960-1975"--Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Film, Religion, and the Desarrollismo Period; 1 Lighting Sainthood in the Time of Technocracy; 2 Praying for Development in Post-Vatican II Comedies; 3 Gender and Modernization in Nun Films; 4 Narratives of Suspicion: Religion in the Nuevo Cine Español; Conclusion: Spanish Cinema at the Intersection of Religion and Politics; Notes; Filmography; Works Cited; IndexJorge Pérez.Includes bibliographical references and index.e-sp---Catholic ChurchIn motion picturesCatholic Church.Religion in motion picturesMotion picturesSpainHistoryMotion picturesReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchSpainReligion20th centurySpainIntellectual life20th centurySpainHistory1939-1975Intellectual lifeMotion picturesMotion picturesReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchReligionReligion in motion picturesSpainPERFORMING ARTS / Reference 1900-1999 fast PN1995.9.R4 P47 2017eb791.43/682746Pérez, Jorge, 1976-Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2017(OCoLC)97126738397814875124461487512449http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1521737http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1521737N$T17052320200709060544.0ocn987792342eng