Soñar con la vida cosmopolita en el cine español: (auto)imágenes en el extranjero

Abstract

Considering the films of Icíar Bollaín, Isabel Coixet and Tania Hermida, diffe-rent approaches to transnational aesthetics in contemporary cinema are shown and related to their context of developing cinema cultures. The results are compared with film critiques by evaluating their notions of identity and national cinema. The final discussion is about the aims of arthouse cinema in different cultures and its tendency to change the habits of perception.