To what extent does Spanish cinema subvert traditional values such as family, sex, religion and machismo?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:58:48
Category: / History / European History
Length: 6 pages (1609 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 6 pages (1609 words)
Spanish cinema, among the oldest in Europe, a cinema that never lost its drive - even during the Civil War feature films continued to be made - and which even from its beginnings reached reasonably high levels of production, only claimed the attention of international critics about twenty or so years ago, after the death of Franco. Arguably, even today it is still a cinema that, despite a few exceptional films by directors such as …
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…the ideas of sex and machismo, through fetishism, death and love and desire, while Jamón jamón challenges the ideas of sex, machismo, religion and family, through jealousy and love. There is no doubt that Spanish cinema challenges the conventional ideas of Spain in the majority of films made. Spanish cinema is now recognised for this, and this is why Spanish cinema is becoming more popular every day.
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