Spanish Visual Culture
Cinema, Television, Internet
Smith, Paul Julian
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BOOK 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.
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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: Almodóvars Hable con ella (Talk to Her) and Televisión Españolas Cuéntame 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: Amenábars Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruises Vanilla Sky * Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art * Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films Introduction: Three media, three themes * The emotional imperative: Almodóvars Hable con ella (Talk to Her) and Televisión Españolas Cuéntame 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: Amenábars Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruises Vanilla Sky * Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art *Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 071907536X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780719075360
Dewey Decimal: 302.222
Library of Congress: oc2007085164
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 184
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