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ReFocus: The International Directors Series

ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín Jordá

Edited by Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger

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Examines the work of Joaquín Jordá, one of the main figures in unconventional, heterodox and combative Spanish cinema

  • Analyzes Jordá’s contributions to cinema and culture with a comprehensive reflection on his works, including documentaries and fiction films, his work in television, his militant movies, his unfinished works, and his time as professor and translator, in addition to his activity as a cultural and ideological agitator
  • Offers an original perspective on Joaquín Jordá’s oeuvre from the fields of film analysis, cultural critique, philosophy, cultural studies and comparative studies
  • Analyzes the importance of Joaquín Jordá’s presence in Spanish and European film contexts, in addition to analyzing the influence of his legacy as a film auteur and professor

Joaquín Jordá is not only one of the most important directors in Spanish film history, but, through his films, he also connects this history with the ideological and aesthetical movements that took place in European cinema and culture. His influence transcends the fields of cinema and politics and shows a different way of understanding, producing and teaching film.

He was a multidisciplinary auteur, who was always attentive to historical and political change, which he observed with a critical eye.

This is one of the first books in English about Jorda’s body of work. The Films of Joaquin Jordá provides this recognition on the international scene with chapters by 17 contributors, academics from international universities and professionals with prestigious careers. These chapters take into consideration not only his films but all his oeuvre and his multidisciplinary activity, which encompassed fiction films and documentaries, television screenplays, translations of literature, militant politics and pedagogy.

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This book is an important contribution to the legacy of a neglected political filmmaker. Joaquim Jordà was a pioneer of the essay film and avant-garde cinema within Spain, an inspiration and mentor to future generations that have reshaped world filmmaking. Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger’s volume offers exhilarating, rich and sophisticated readings of his work that capture the spirit of Jordà’s dissident voice.
Table of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Note on Translations

Introduction: The Blind Zones: The Cinema of Joaquín Jordá
Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger

Part I. First Life: Modernity and Politics

1. Joaquín Jordá and the Disobedience of Images
Mateus Araújo

2. Whenever the Woman Is Present: Jordá’s Political Cinematography during the 60s and 70s Considered through Female Characters
Laura Gómez Vaquero

3. Film and Political Autonomy: Legacies of the Italian Period in Joaquín Jordá
Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas

4. The Red Years of Joaquín Jordá
Santiago Fillol and Luis E. Parés

5. A Work Force of Images: Militancy as Historical Experience in Joaquín Jordá’s Numax Presents...
Sara Nadal-Melsió

6. Notes on a Film about Marginality and Difference: Echoes of Pasolini in the Cinema of Joaquín Jordá
Albert Elduque

Part II. Second Life: After the Revolution

7. Joaquín Jordá’s The Hunter’s Assignment (1990): Filmmakers, Vampires, and Doppelgängers
Teresa M. Vilarós

8. The Red and the Black: Crime Fiction and Cinema of the Real in the Films of Joaquín Jordá
Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó Corretger

9. The Lesson of the Master: Joaquín Jordá’s Work for Television
Ivan Pintor Iranzo

10. Joaquín Jordá: Dialogic Cinema as a Tool of Collective Intelligence and Public Dissent
Irene Liberia Vayá

11. Participatory Montage in Jordá’s Cinema
Gonzalo de Lucas and Diana Toucedo

Part III. Afterlife: The Legacy of Joaquín Jordá

12. “Platform of Affected People”: Affection, Vulnerability and the Common in the Late Films of Joaquín Jordá
Luis Moreno-Caballud

13. The Poetics of Transmission: Joaquín Jordá’s Legacy
Brice Castanon-Akrami

14. Undead Cinema. Spectral Footprints of Joaquín Jordá in the Politicized and Participatory Theater of Roger Bernat and The Friendly Face of Fascism Theatre Company
Núria Gómez Gabriel

Index

About the contributors

Fran Benavente

Fran Benavente is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He is the author of El héroe trágico del western. El género y sus límites (The Tragic Hero in Westerns: Genre and Its Limits, 2017) and co-editor of Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013).

Glòria Salvadó-Corretger

Glòria Salvadó-Corretger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). She is the author of Espectres del cinema portuguès contemporani (Spectres of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema, 2012) and co-editor of Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013).

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