Research Catalog

Title

The cinema of Víctor Erice : an open window / edited by Linda C. Ehrlich.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ehrlich, Linda C. (Linda Channah), 1952-

Description

xix, 357 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Open window.

Subject

Erice, Víctor > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Originally published in hardcover in 2000 as An open window"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-338) and index.
• Includes filmography: p. 316-323.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Translator's art / Julie H. Croy and Guy H. Wood -- I. Introduction -- Objects suspended in light / Linda C. Ehrlich -- II. Conversations -- interview with Victor Erice / Linda C. Ehrlich and James Amelang -- III. Reflections on early cinema : Victor Erice -- Why do you make films? -- Can you see now? -- To the cinema, in memoriam -- IV. Commentary on early writings -- Excerpts from Victor Erice / Carmen Arocena -- V. feature films : The Spirit of the Beehive -- Screen : a perilous country / Vincent Canby -- risks of initiation into the spirit / Fernando Savater -- "I am Ana" : the play of the imagination in The Spirit of the Beehive / Luis O. Arata -- war behind the window : notes on The Spirit of the Beehive / Vicente Molina Foix -- About The Spirit of the Beehive / Alain Mitjaville -- Familial discourse in The Spirit of the Beehive : the parents' estrangement / Miguel Angel Lomillos -- VI. feature films : El sur -- Childhood against the light / Alain Philippon and Charlotte Sanpere-Godard -- Thirty-three scholarly questions about El sur / Angel Fernandez-Santos -- narrative of star-cross'd lovers / Peter Evans and Robin Fiddian -- Living stones, dead souls : the other side of the map. El sur novel and film / Antonio Santos -- VII. feature films : Dream of Light (The Quince Tree Sun) -- Review : Dream of Light / William Johnson -- Whispers and rapture : on politics and art in the films of Erice / Paul Julian Smith -- Watching as a painting comes slowly into being / Janet Maslin -- Projected shadow / Laurence Giavarini -- Interior gardens : Dream of Light and the Bodegon tradition / Linda C. Ehrlich -- From documenting the national and its subversion in a democratic Spain / Marsha Kinder -- Excerpt from interview with Antonio Lopez Garcia / Michael Brenson -- VIII. General essays / other film projects -- From Velazquez's Mirror to Dream of Light : a conversation about film / Hasumi Shigehiko -- dragon in my life / Miyaoka Hideyuki -- Reality in Juan Marse / Helena Rotes -- Victor Erice and "the only time" / Maeda Hideki -- Silences : Victor Erice's use of sound / Dominique Russell -- Victor Erice's reasonable doubts / Miguel Marias -- Cinema and poetry / Victor Erice -- Writing cinema, thinking cinema ... / Victor Erice -- IX. Since 2000 -- Victor Erice's La Promesa de Shanghai and Alumbramiento : the promise of words, the promise of time / Juan F. Egea and Linda C. Ehrlich -- Erice-Kiarostami : the pathways of creation / Alain Bergala -- Correspondence : news of a process / Jordi Ballo -- La Morte Rouge : Soliloquy / Victor Erice -- Epilogue : traveling light / Jorge Latorre -- App. Reviews (synopses of films) -- Frankenstein in Castile / Alberto Moravia -- In the world : El sur (The South) / John Pym -- Dream of Light (The Quince Tree Sun) / Phillip Strick.

ISBN

• 9780810858848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810858843 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006034476

OCLC

• 74123858
• SCSB-10782347

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library