Crossing Over: The films and Filmmaking of Alejandro Amenábar

亚历杭德罗·阿梅纳伯是当今西班牙最受欢迎的年轻电影制片人，他是20世纪90年代新一代导演的主要代表，他们成功地将联合收割机的商业成功与艺术天赋结合起来。这个项目是第一个主要的，全面的英语研究他的电影和电影制作实践。它试图说明阿梅纳伯的独特品牌的商业吸引力，质量，导演电影，虽然不仅仅是在西班牙的导演传统和它的“国家电影院”。相反，它分析了Amenaber作为20世纪91年代西班牙电影业转型的典范，这也反映了全球电影制作，发行和营销中发生的更广泛，更复杂的变化。

Alejandro Amenaber is Spain's most acclaimed young filmmaker today, a leading representative of the new wave of 1990's directors who have managed to combine commercial success with artistic flair. This project is the first major, comprehensively study in English of his films and filmmaking practices. It seeks to account for Amenaber's distinctive brand of commercially appealing, quality, auteur cinema, though not simply in terms of Spain's auteur traditions and its 'national cinema'. Rather, it analyses Amenaber as an exemplar of transformations in Spain's film industry in the 1991's, which also reflect wider and more complex changes taking place in global film production, distribution and marketing.