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ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín Jordá

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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 aesthetic movements that took place in European cinema and culture. His influence transcends the fields of cinema and... Read More
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Examines the work of Joaqun Jord, one of the main figures in unconventional, heterodox and combative Spanish cinema.

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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 aesthetic 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 Jordá's body of work. ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín 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.

Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series

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ISBN: 9781399513104

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Edinburgh University Press

Illustration: 25 black and white illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Fran Benavente
  • Edited by Gloria Salvado-Corretger
  • Edited by Glòria Salvadó-Corretger

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Fran Benavente is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). He is the author of El heroe trgico del western. El genero y sus lmites (The Tragic Hero in Westerns: Genre and Its Limits, 2017) and co-editor of Poeticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013). Glria Salvad-Corretger is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). She is the author of Espectres del cinema portugues contemporani (Spectres of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema, 2012) and co-editor of Poeticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporneo (Poetics of Gesture in Contemporary European Cinema, 2013).

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