Spanish Lessons
eBook - PDF

Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Spanish Lessons
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I. Film
  7. Chapter 1. Spanish Cinema of the 1980s
  8. Chapter 2. Madrid de Cine
  9. Chapter 3. Almodóvar’s Self-Fashioning
  10. Part II. Television
  11. Chapter 4. Media Migration and Cultural Proximity
  12. Chapter 5. LGBT TV Catalonia
  13. Chapter 6. Televisual Properties
  14. Part III. (Re)turn to Transmedia
  15. Chapter 7. Toward Transmedia
  16. Chapter 8. A New Paradigm for the Spanish Audiovisual Sector?
  17. Chapter 9. Crisis Fictions
  18. Conclusion. A New Paradigm for the Spanish Audiovisual
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index