The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the history of cinema. The films are often a combination of Mérimée’s 1845 novella and the opera Bizet fashioned from the novella thirty years later. Carmen on Film: A Cultural History focuses on 16 of the most important Carmen films, ranging across three main cinemas (Hollywood, France, and Spain), stretching from the earliest films to the most recent (by director): Calmettes (1910), DeMille (1915), Walsh (1915), Chaplin (1916), Lubitsch (1918), Walsh (1927), Feyder (1926), Rey (1938), Vidor (1948), Preminger (1954), Demicheli (1959), Saura (1983), Godard (1984), Rosi (1984), Ramaka (2001), and Aranda (2003).
The story of Carmen has captured the imagination of audiences and readers for more than 150 years. Powrie, Babington, Davies, and Perriam ask why—and in their examination of the numerous cinematic retellings of this popular tale, they offer insight into the cultural significance of the fictional lives and deaths of Carmen.

Carmen on Film: A Cultural History

Davies, Ann

Perriam, Chris

Powrie, Phil

Babington, Bruce

Biddle, Ian

Humor & Entertainment

Indiana University Press

Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as a purveyor of crude violence by those critics lamenting a "lost golden age" of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoro’s films reveal in fact a more complex interaction with trends and traditions in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema.This book is the first full-length study of the director’s work, from his early social realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror film. It offers an in-depth film-by-film analysis, while simultaneously exploring the function of the director in the contemporary Spanish context, the tension between directors and critics, and the question of national cinema in an area--the Basque Country--of heightened national and regional sensitivities.

Daniel Calparsoro (Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Manchester University Press

Discusses the history of rag rugs, introduces the equipment and techniques, and provides detailed instructions for making twelve projects, from throw rugs to jewelry

Rag Rugs: How to Use Ancient and Modern Rug-Making Techniques to Create Rugs, Wallhangings, Even Jewelry (Contemporary Crafts)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Owlet

Hooked Rugs

Large Oversized First Edition First Printing Hardbound with Colorful Dust Cover!!! Book in New Condition--Dust Cover Has Cut Marks--NOT Cut Through

TENNANT, EMMA.

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Book by Davies, Ann, Tennant, Emma

Fabric remnants, discarded clothing or specially chosen material can be hooked on to canvas to create wonderful rugs, wallhangings and cushions.

How to Make Hand-Hooked Rag Rugs

Search Press

A classic book of ageless wisdom exploring timeless principles of philosophy.

Inspirational thoughts on the tarot

Builders of the Adytum

With the success of novels such as The Shadow of the Wind and films such as The Others, contemporary Spanish culture has contributed a great deal to the imagery and experience of the Gothic, although contributions of this sort are not always recognised as being specifically Spanish in origin. Contemporary Spanish Gothic is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely. Examining the works of writers and filmmakers like Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Pedro Almodóvar and Alejandro Amenábar, as well as the further reaches of Spanish Gothic influence in the Twilight film series, the book considers images and themes including the mad surgeon and the vulnerable body, the role of the haunted house and the heritage biopics of Francisco de Goya.

Contemporary Spanish Gothic

Movies

Edinburgh University Press

Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as a purveyor of crude violence by those critics lamenting a 'lost golden age' of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoro's films reveal in fact a more complex interaction with trends and traditions in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema. This book is the first full-length study of the director's work, from his early social realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror film. It offers an in-depth film-by-film analysis, while simultaneously exploring the function of the director in the contemporary Spanish context, the tension between directors and critics, and the question of national cinema in an area - the Basque Country - of heightened national and regional sensitivities.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

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Carmen on Film: A Cultural History

Carmen on Film: A Cultural History

Daniel Calparsoro (Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers)

Rag Rugs: How to Use Ancient and Modern Rug-Making Techniques to Create Rugs, Wallhangings, Even Jewelry (Contemporary Crafts)

Hooked Rugs

Hooked Rugs

How to Make Hand-Hooked Rag Rugs

Inspirational thoughts on the tarot

Contemporary Spanish Gothic

Daniel Calparsoro (Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers)