The Secret of Ana (1976); Carlos Saura

Class Assignments

 

Monday 22 Sept.  week 5.

Spanish Cinema. The Franco Years. Excerpts of films.

SC. Cría Cuervos. The Secret of Anna. Carlos Saura (1976, 107’, Library west, dvd only)

 

Wed. 24 Sept.

Film discussion. Paper #1 on Cria Cuervos due today*

Reading: Insdorf,  “Sonar con tus Ojos: Carlos Sauras’ Melodic Cinema.” Quarterly Review of Film Studies VIII/2, spring 83, pp.49-55. (ARES reserve, call # https://ares.uflib.ufl.edu/ares.dll?action=10&form=50&value=35967.

Additional Links:

Carlos Saura biography and flamenco-related films

Interview: Camera is My Memory: Carlos Saura

Criterion Collection essay by Paul Julian Smith

Film Reference

 

Additional Articles

 ”Carlos Saura: The Political Development of Individual Consciousness; Film Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Spring, 1979), pp. 14-25  on JSTOR

~ by drblumreid on September 22, 2008.