Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-108-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult. Whether generating new insights into the work of key figures like Pedro Almodóvar, comparing media depictions of Spain’s economic woes, or giving long-overdue critical attention to quality television series, Smith’s book is a consistently lively and accessible cultural investigation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Paul Julian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Film, Television, Transmedia

PART I: FILM

Chapter 1. Spanish Cinema of the 1980s

Chapter 2. Madrid de Cine: Spanish Film Screenings

Chapter 3. Almodóvar’s Self-fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Post-Auteurism

PART II: TELEVISION

Chapter 4. Media Migration and Cultural Proximity: A Specimen Season of Television Drama

Chapter 5. LGBT TV Catalonia

Chapter 6. Televisual Properties: The Construction Bubble in Three TV Series

PART III: (RE)TURN TO TRANSMEDIA

Chapter 7. Towards Transmedia: Past and Present of Cinema and Television in Spain

Chapter 8. A New Paradigm for the Spanish Audiovisual Sector?: Popular Cinema/Quality Television

Chapter 9. Crisis Fictions: Novel, Cinema, TV

Conclusion: The Audiovisual Field in Contemporary Spain

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Paul Julian
Paul Julian Smith is a specialist in film and television in Spain and Mexico. He is Distinguished Professor in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Program in the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and he was for twenty years Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of seventeen books.