Spanish Visual Culture Cinema, Television, Internet
by Smith, Paul JulianFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-11-30
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Three media, three themes | |
| The emotional imperative: Almodóvar’sHable con ella (Talk to Her)and Televisión Española’sCuéntame cómo pasó (“Tell Me How It Happened”) | |
| Family plots: The politics of affect in television drama of the millennium | |
| The movida relocated: press, chronicle, novel | |
| Towards the Spanish youth movie:Historias del Kronen | |
| Spanish heritage, spanish cinema: The strange case of Juana la Loca | |
| High anxiety: Amenábar’sAbre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruise’sVanilla Sky | |
| Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art | |
| Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films | |
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