Preying upon Hitchcock? Five Directors in Search of a Transnational Aura

Authors

  • Diana Roxana Jorza University of Notre Dame

Keywords:

Hitchcock, Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, Campanella, Spanish Cinema, Latin American cinema

Abstract

Review of Donna Kercher. Latin Hitchcock. How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro and Campanella Became Notorious. Columbia UP, 2015.

Author Biography

Diana Roxana Jorza, University of Notre Dame

Diana Roxana Jorza is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at University of Notre Dame, where she specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture, focusing on 20th-century film and narrative, the relationship between hegemonic and alternative public spheres, Spanish intellectual history, humor and comedy. Her published articles are included in Revista Hispánica ModernaBulletin of Hispanic StudiesStudies in Hispanic Cinemas, and Bulletin of Spanish Studies and focus on the Spanish Neorealism, the Civil War cinema and religious melodrama, as well as political and literary utopias. Her current interdisciplinary research on Spanish film comedy centers on a largely unknown cinematic corpus that has greatly contributed to the visibility of new, alternative role models in the harsh period of Franco’s dictatorship.

Published

2016-02-06

How to Cite

Jorza, D. R. (2016). Preying upon Hitchcock? Five Directors in Search of a Transnational Aura. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 13(2), 398–409. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1529

Issue

Section

Reviews: Film