Paul Julian Smith

Spanish visual culture

Cinema, television, internet

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emtion, location and nostalgia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075360
• ISBN-10: 071907536X
• Artikelnr.: 22761220

Autorenporträt

Paul Julian Smith is distinguished professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of nineteen books, including Mexican Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television, Amores Perros, and Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. He was a juror at the Morelia and San Sebastián International Film Festivals and is a columnist at Film Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Three media, three themes 1 The emotional imperative:
Almodóvar's Hable con ella (Talk to Her) and Televisión Española's Cuéntame
cómo pasó ("Tell Me How It Happened") 2 Family plots: The politics of
affect in television drama of the millennium 3 The movida relocated: press,
chronicle, novel 4 Towards the Spanish youthmovie: Historias del Kronen 5
Spanish heritage, spanish cinema: The strange case of Juana la Loca 6 High
anxiety: Amenábar's Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruise's
Vanilla Sky 7 Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art 8
Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films