Spanish Visual Culture: Cinema, Television, Internet

by Paul Julian Smith

Susan Williams (Index)

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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 Almodóvar 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.

  • ISBN10 071907536X
  • ISBN13 9780719075360
  • Publish Date 30 November 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Manchester University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English