TRANSNATIONAL DANCES: THE MUSICAL FILMS OF CARLOS SAURA

Since the 1980s, the prestigious Spanish director Carlos Saura has been developing a series of musical films that collect different examples of Ibero-American popular traditions that are articulated in these films through particular aesthetic forms. Through the examination of Saura’s musical cinema and using previous work on the subject, we intend to study how such cinema develops new repre- sentations of musical folklore that are suitable for its circulation in international networks focused on auteur cinema.