Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsIntroduction: 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
