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Fictional socialism: blurring genre boundaries in Alex de la Iglesia's Mutant Action.(Critical essay)

Critics and filmmakers frequently attribute the dearth of Spanish science fiction films to the lack of money for financing special effects that can compete with those of US movies. Following the catastrophic failure of Fernando Colomo's El caballero del Dragon in 1985, Spanish efforts in the fantasy and science fiction genres ceased for nearly a decade (Tamosunas 108). One of the few movies that viewers could categorize as science fiction was Alex de la Iglesia's 1992 release Accion Mutante. Set in 2012, the movie portrays a society obsessed with physical beauty and ruled by "ninos bonitos" and "pijos" (upper-class snobs). Only Mutant Action, a rebel hand of physically ...

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