Catalan Cinema: The Barcelona Film School and the New Avant-Garde

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations

Introduction
Anton Pujol and Jaume Martí-Olivella

Part One: The Mavericks and the Barcelona School

1. Future Seeds: Some Considerations on the Cinema around Barcelona 92
Angel Quintana

Part Two: The Jordà Legacy

2. The Hunter and the Monkeys: Jacinto Esteva, Joaquim Jordà, and the Legacy of the Barcelona School
Esteve Riambau

3. Jordà’s Last Trilogy: Situationist Turn and Subject Transformation
Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas

4. The Militant Cinema of Joaquim Jordà
Steven Marsh

Part Three: The Portabella Nexus

5. Economies of Sound: Labouring Europe in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos
Sara Nadal-Melsió

6. Pere Portabella’s Radical Theatricality: A Political Gaze Over Two Transitions
Jaume Martí-Olivella

7. Traversing the Real with the Reel: Pere Portabella’s Vampir.Cuadecuc and Albert Serra’s Història de la meva mort Infrapolitical Spectrality
Teresa M. Vilarós

Part Four: The New (Post) Avant-Garde

8. Beyond Melancholy: The Post-Avant-Garde Cinema of José Luis Guerín
Josep Maria Català

9. On the Threshold of the Diegetic World: Optical and Haptic Visuality in Elisa K
Eva Bru

10. Watching Novels and Reading Films: Deleuzian Affects in Catalan Cinema
Anton Pujol

Part Five: Minimalism and Beyond

11. Formal Disruption, Minutiae, and Absence in the Films of Jaime Rosales
Agustín Rico-Albero

12. Identitykit: Where Do We Meet Isaki Lacuesta
Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen

Contributors

Index

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