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Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Paul Julian Smith
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Index by Susan Williams
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:192 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138 |
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Category/Genre | Film theory and criticism |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780719075360
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Classifications | Dewey:791.4301 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Manchester University Press
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Imprint |
Manchester University Press
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Publication Date |
30 November 2006 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emotion, location and nostalgia. The first two chapters focus on emotion. They analyze the 'emotional imperative' in a recent Almodovar feature film and in Spanish television's top-rated period drama, and investigate the politics of affect in TV drama in the last decade. The next pair of chapters deal with location. They use cultural geography to re-read contradictory accounts of the movida (the post-Franco cultural boom) and examine an attempt to anchor a US-derived genre (the youth movie) in the urban landscape of Madrid. The fifth and sixth chapters introduce the theme of location into nostalgia. They treat the unique cases of a successful Spanish heritage movie and a contemporary Spanish thriller remade in Hollywood. The peunultimate chapter investigates electronic artists and the virtual universe, and the book ends with a look at the implications of Hispano-Mexican co-productions and the interconnectedness of economic and aesthetic cultural forms. -- .
Author Biography
Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge -- .
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