{"product_id":"architecture-and-the-urban-in-spanish-film-9781789384895","title":"Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchitecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePrimary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSusan Larson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- AnalyticDocumentary Mode in \u003cem\u003eMercado de futuros \u003c\/em\u003e(2011) by Mercedes Álvarez\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBenjamin Fraser \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJorge Gorostiza\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 2: MOBILITY\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936 \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNuria Rodríguez- Martín \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: LuisLucia’s \u003cem\u003eCerca de la ciudad \u003c\/em\u003e(1952)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Foshee \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eElevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTom Whittaker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6. An Archi- Texture of Pleasure: The \u003cem\u003eVerbena\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eModistilla \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eMantón de Manila \u003c\/em\u003ein \u003cem\u003eRosa de Madrid \u003c\/em\u003e(1927) \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJuli Highfill \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s \u003cem\u003eEl verdugo \u003c\/em\u003e(1963) \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatricia Keller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 4: THE EVERYDAY \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJosefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film \u003cem\u003eEl inquilino \u003c\/em\u003e(1957)? \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSusan Larson and Carlos Sambricio \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’ \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVicente Sánchez- Biosca \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- \u003cem\u003emovida \u003c\/em\u003eFilms \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSamuel Amago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 6: THE VIRTUAL \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s \u003cem\u003e10.000km \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAnchor and Hope \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeigh Mercer \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in \u003cem\u003eCabanyal Z\u003c\/em\u003e, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Luis Vilaseca \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042576007511,"sku":"9781789384895","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789384895.jpg?v=1750954707","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/architecture-and-the-urban-in-spanish-film-9781789384895","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}