Paul Julian Smith

Spanish Lessons

Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nationà â â s visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9781800734418
• ISBN-10: 1800734417
• Artikelnr.: 62396109

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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