Confessional Cinema

In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

Jorge Pérez is Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin.

‘Confessional Cinema is bound to be a most influential work and a fundamental referent in Spanish cultural and film studies for many years to come.’

D. West:

‘In this ground breaking study, Pérez explores the impact of Catholicism as a sociopolitical force in approximately 50 documentary and fiction features…. Highly recommended.’

Matthew Marr, Associate Professor of Spanish, Penn State University:

"This is an outstanding book, and I look forward to referencing it in future graduate courses."

Jorge Marí, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, North Carolina State University:

"Confessional Cinema is a sophisticated work that elegantly intertwines cultural theory, history, and film criticism. Jorge Pérez’s analyses are invariably superb, tremendously perceptive, and illuminating. Confessional Cinema is bound to be a most influential work and a fundamental referent in Spanish cultural and film studies for years to come."

Samuel Amago, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of Spanish, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

"Jorge Pérez has crafted a readable and well organized overview of Spain’s desarrollismo years. He successfully fills the gap in scholarly writing with his compelling analysis of the evolving importance played by religion in the Spanish project of modernity."