ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín Jordá

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 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).

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.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsNote on TranslationsIntroduction: The Blind Zones: The Cinema of Joaquín JordáFran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-CorretgerPart I. First Life: Modernity and Politics 1. Joaquín Jordá and the Disobedience of ImagesMateus Araújo2. Whenever the Woman Is Present: Jordá’s Political Cinematography during the 60s and 70s Considered through Female CharactersLaura Gómez Vaquero3. Film and Political Autonomy: Legacies of the Italian Period in Joaquín JordáIgnasi Gozalo-Salellas4. The Red Years of Joaquín JordáSantiago Fillol and Luis E. Parés5. A Work Force of Images: Militancy as Historical Experience in Joaquín Jordá’s Numax Presents...Sara Nadal-Melsió6. Notes on a Film about Marginality and Difference: Echoes of Pasolini in the Cinema of Joaquín JordáAlbert ElduquePart II. Second Life: After the Revolution7. Joaquín Jordá’s The Hunter’s Assignment (1990): Filmmakers, Vampires, and DoppelgängersTeresa M. Vilarós8. The Red and the Black: Crime Fiction and Cinema of the Real in the Films of Joaquín JordáFran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó Corretger9. The Lesson of the Master: Joaquín Jordá’s Work for TelevisionIvan Pintor Iranzo10. Joaquín Jordá: Dialogic Cinema as a Tool of Collective Intelligence and Public DissentIrene Liberia Vayá11. Participatory Montage in Jordá’s CinemaGonzalo de Lucas and Diana ToucedoPart III. Afterlife: The Legacy of Joaquín Jordá12. “Platform of Affected People”: Affection, Vulnerability and the Common in the Late Films of Joaquín JordáLuis Moreno-Caballud13. The Poetics of Transmission: Joaquín Jordá’s LegacyBrice Castanon-Akrami14. Undead Cinema. Spectral Footprints of Joaquín Jordá in the Politicized and Participatory Theater of Roger Bernat and The Friendly Face of Fascism Theatre CompanyNúria Gómez GabrielIndex