The Fantasy Films of the Madrid Film School. Matheson, Bradbury and Sheckley at Monte Esquinza
Abstract
The exercises of fantasy cinema shot at the Madrid Film School between 1947 and 1976 constitute a corpus of works of sufficient significance to force us to rethink the history of this film genre in our country. This article studies the fantasy films produced by the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas-Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía (IIEC-EOC) in the double context of Spanish genre cinema and popular fantasy literature published in Spanish on the period of Franco's regime. The second part of the article analyzes in detail some of the most representative fantasy films of the most important center of artistic education (specialized in cinema) that has existed in Spain. Specifically, attention is paid to the adaptations of I am Legend (Richard Matheson), The Playground (Ray Bradbury) and The Prize of Peril (Robert Sheckley) directed, in that order, by Mario Gómez Martín, Pedro Olea and Francisco Montolío.
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