Spanish Visual Culture : Cinema, Television, Internet Paperback / softback
by Paul Julian Smith
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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. -- .
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780719075360
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780719075360