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Book Synopsis

This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will examine Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age.

Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together the innovative scholarship of an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars thinking through the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. Some of the shared concerns that emerge from this volume include the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited since the early twentieth century; the question of the mobile gaze; film's role in the shifting relationship between the private and the public; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; the impact of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship.

Primary readership will be those researching, teaching and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban cultural studies, cultural studies, and architects who are interested in interdisciplinary endeavours.



Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies

Susan Larson

PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN

1.Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- AnalyticDocumentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez

Benjamin Fraser

2.Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films

Jorge Gorostiza

PART 2: MOBILITY

3.The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936

Nuria Rodríguez- Martín

4.Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: LuisLucia’s Cerca de la ciudad (1952)

David Foshee

Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film

Tom Whittaker

PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS

6. An Archi- Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)

Juli Highfill

7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s El verdugo (1963)

Patricia Keller

PART 4: THE EVERYDAY

8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film

Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas

9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema

Emeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca

PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL

10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)?

Susan Larson and Carlos Sambricio

11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’

Vicente Sánchez- Biosca

12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- movida Films

Samuel Amago

PART 6: THE VIRTUAL

13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s 10.000km and Anchor and Hope

Leigh Mercer

14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban

Stephen Luis Vilaseca

Notes on Contributors

Index

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      Publisher: Intellect Books
      Publication Date: 02/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9781789384895, 978-1789384895
      ISBN10: 1789384893

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will examine Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age.

      Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together the innovative scholarship of an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars thinking through the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. Some of the shared concerns that emerge from this volume include the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited since the early twentieth century; the question of the mobile gaze; film's role in the shifting relationship between the private and the public; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; the impact of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship.

      Primary readership will be those researching, teaching and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban cultural studies, cultural studies, and architects who are interested in interdisciplinary endeavours.



      Table of Contents

      List of Figures

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies

      Susan Larson

      PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN

      1.Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- AnalyticDocumentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez

      Benjamin Fraser

      2.Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films

      Jorge Gorostiza

      PART 2: MOBILITY

      3.The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936

      Nuria Rodríguez- Martín

      4.Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: LuisLucia’s Cerca de la ciudad (1952)

      David Foshee

      Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film

      Tom Whittaker

      PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS

      6. An Archi- Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)

      Juli Highfill

      7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s El verdugo (1963)

      Patricia Keller

      PART 4: THE EVERYDAY

      8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film

      Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas

      9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema

      Emeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca

      PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL

      10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)?

      Susan Larson and Carlos Sambricio

      11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’

      Vicente Sánchez- Biosca

      12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- movida Films

      Samuel Amago

      PART 6: THE VIRTUAL

      13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s 10.000km and Anchor and Hope

      Leigh Mercer

      14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban

      Stephen Luis Vilaseca

      Notes on Contributors

      Index

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