[Commlist] new book ReFocus: The Films of JoaquínJordá

New book: ReFocus: The Films of Joaquín Jordá


We are pleased to announce the publication of /*ReFocus: The Films of 
Joaquín Jordá*/, recently released by Edinburgh University Press as part 
of the ReFocus: The International Directors Series.

This volume is the first scholarly book in English devoted to the work 
of Joaquín Jordá. It brings international attention to Jordá’s oeuvre, 
offering a comprehensive and multifaceted exploration of key aspects of 
his practice. These include his engagement with militant cinema, his 
political and social activism, the performative dimension of his films, 
his work as a screenwriter, and the role of biopolitics in his cinema. 
The book also addresses the critical reception of his work and the 
significance of Barcelona—its geography and urban transformations—within 
his films.

In addition, the volume opens up new lines of inquiry, examining for the 
first time the artistic reworking of Jordá’s films, his relationship 
with genre, his unfinished projects, his pedagogical work, his legacy in 
Spanish and European cinema, as well as his contributions to television 
and his writings on cinema and politics.

Bringing together 17 international contributors, the book adopts an 
interdisciplinary perspective to reassess Jordá’s importance within 
Spanish and European film culture. Each chapter offers an original 
approach, contributing to a deeper critical understanding of his work 
and helping to make visible a filmmaker who remains insufficiently known 
in international contexts.

Joaquín Jordá stands as one of the most important figures in Spanish 
film history. His films establish rich connections with broader 
ideological and aesthetic movements in European cinema and culture. His 
influence extends beyond filmmaking into the realms of politics, 
pedagogy, and critical thought, proposing alternative ways of 
understanding, producing, and teaching cinema.


*Table of Contents*

Introduction. The Blind Zones: The Cinema of Joaquín Jordá (Fran 
Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger)

*Part I. First Life: Modernity and Politics*

1. Joaquín Jordá and the Disobedience of Images (Mateus Araújo)

2. Whenever the Woman is Present: Jordá’s Political Cinematography 
during the 1960s and 1970s Considered through Female Characters (Laura 
Gómez Vaquero)

3. Film and Political Autonomy: Legacies of the Italian Period in 
Joaquín Jordá (Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas)

4. The Red Years of Joaquín Jordá (Santiago Fillol and Luis E. Parés)

5. A Work Force of Images: Militancy as Historical Experience in Joaquín 
Jordá’s Numax Presents… (Sara Nadal-Melsió)

6.Notes on a Film about Marginality and Difference: Echoes of Pasolini 
in the Cinema of Joaquín Jordá (Albert Elduque)

*Part II. Second Life: After the Revolution*

7. Joaquín Jordá’s The Hunter’s Assignment (1990): Filmmakers, Vampires 
and Doppelgängers (Teresa M. Vilarós)

8. The Red and the Black: Crime Fiction and Cinema of the Real in the 
Films of Joaquín Jordá (Fran Benavente and Glòria Salvadó-Corretger)

9. The Lesson of the Master: Joaquín Jordá’s Work for Television (Ivan 
Pintor Iranzo)

10. Joaquín Jordá: Dialogic Cinema as a Tool of Collective Intelligence 
and Public Dissent (Irene Liberia Vayá)

11. Participatory Montage in Jordá’s Cinema (Gonzalo de Lucas and Diana 
Toucedo)

*Part III. Afterlife: The Legacy of Joaquín Jordá*

12. “Platform of Affected People”: Affection, Vulnerability and the 
Common in the Late Films of Joaquín Jordá (Luis Moreno-Caballud)

13. The Poetics of Transmission: Joaquín Jordá’s Legacy (Brice 
Castanon-Akrami)

14. Undead Cinema: Spectral Footprints of Joaquín Jordá in the 
Politicized and Participatory Theatre of Roger Bernat and The Friendly 
Face of Fascism Theatre Company (Núria Gómez Gabriel)

*About the editors*

*Fran Benavente *is Associate Professor in the Department of 
Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and coordinator of the CINEMA 
research group. His work focuses on visual motifs, the political 
structures of images, and strategies of historical representation in 
contemporary cinema and television fiction.

*Glòria Salvadó-Corretger* is Associate Professor in the Department of 
Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research addresses visual 
motifs, iconographic traditions in cinema and the public sphere, 
European cinema, and contemporary serial fiction.


*The book is available here*: 
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-joaquin-jorda.html 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-joaquin-jorda.html>
*Launch discount – save 30%*: use code *NEW30* at checkout.

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