From the savage visionary satire of Luis Bunuel's 1960s productions to the steamy pop sensuality of Pedro Almodóvar's early work during the 1980s, Spanish cinema enjoyed one of its most vibrant and iconoclastic phases.

In their attempts to chart the currents of hypocrisy and repression running through modern society, Bunuel, Saura, Erice and Almodóvar have between them created a unique and distinctive body of work. Indecent Exposures provides the reader with an excellent introduction to ten of their films, depicting a world where bourgeois values have collapsed, and the facades of good manners, propriety and political expediency have all been cast aside. Such classics as Bunuels's Viridiana, Saura's Raise Ravens, Erice's Spirit of the Beehive and Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown are set against their social and political backgrounds and examined in terms of the director's own personal concerns.

Essential reading for anyone interested in film at its most culturally provocative.

£12.95/$17.95
ISBN UK 1-84230-009-1, US 0-7145-2984-2
Film