9 On the Threshold of the Diegetic World: Optical and Haptic Visuality in Elisa K

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The Mavericks and the Barcelona School
7. 1 Future Seeds: Some Considerations on the Cinema around Barcelona 92 43
8. Part Two: The Jordà Legacy
9. 2 The Hunter and the Monkeys: Jacinto Esteva, Joaquim Jordà, and the Legacy of the Barcelona School 65
10. 3 Jordà’s Last Trilogy: Situationist Turn and Subject Transformation 80
11. 4 The Militant Cinema of Joaquim Jordà: The Essay Film as Form 102
12. Part Three: The Portabella Nexus
13. 5 Economies of Sound: Labouring Europe in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos 125
14. 6 Pere Portabella’s Radical Theatricality: A Political Gaze over Two Transitions 145
15. 7 Traversing the Real with the Reel: Infrapolitical Spectrality in Pere Portabella’s Vampir.Cuadecuc and Albert Serra’s Història de la meva mort 171
16. Part Four: The New (Post) Avant-Garde
17. 8 Beyond Melancholy: The Post-Avant-Garde Cinema of José Luis Guerín 207
18. 9 On the Threshold of the Diegetic World: Optical and Haptic Visuality in Elisa K 231
19. 10 Watching Novels and Reading Films: Deleuzian Affects in Catalan Cinema 255
20. Part Five: Minimalism and Beyond
21. 11 Formal Disruption, Minutiae, and Absence in the Films of Jaime Rosales 283
22. 12 Identity Kit: Where to Meet Isaki Lacuesta 299
23. Contributors 333
24. Index 339
25. Toronto Iberic 355