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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. -- .

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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

Spanish Visual Culture

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 11/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719075360
      978-0719075360
      ISBN-10 071907536X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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. -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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