Contemporary Spanish cultural studies / edited by Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jordan, Barry, 1950-

Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--Civilization.

Spain.

Civilization.

Spain--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Spain--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Spanish studies is changing dramatically under the influence of cultural theory, which challenges accepted ideas of high, mass and popular culture. This stimulating book offers a new, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary Spanish culture and society, taking as its starting point the contradictory process of economic modernisation which began in the 1960s.

Written by group of leading scholars, this collection provides readers with a gateway to the key debates and issues involved in the study of contemporary Spanish culture, exploring topics ranging from race, nationalism and identity to the media, gender and sex. Students and scholars alike will find this an essential source book and a valuable guide to contemporary Spain and its diverse cultures.

Contents:

Part 1 Redefining National Identities 13

1 Culture and development: the impact of 1960s 'desarrollismo' / Alex Longhurst 17

2 Selling Spanish 'otherness' since the 1960s / Dorothy Kelly 29

3 Collective memory, the nation-state and post-Franco society / Michael Richards 38

4 Race, immigration and multiculturalism in Spain / David Corkill 48

5 1992: memories and modernities / Tony Morgan 58

6 How Spanish is it? Spanish cinema and national identity / Barry Jordan 68

Part II Negotiating the Past 79

7 Heritage: devolution and the recovery of diversity / Tony Morgan 83

8 Cultural memory, commerce and the arts: the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) / Trinidad Manchado 92

9 Postmodernism and the contemporary Spanish avant-garde / Antonio Sanchez 101

10 Screening the past: history and nostalgia in contemporary Spanish cinema / Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas 111

11 Sects and secularity: another cinema, another Spain / Ryan Prout 123

12 Spectacle, trauma and violence in contemporary Spain / Cristina Moreiras Menor 134

Part III Media: Regulation, Markets, Publics 143

13 Public accountability and private interests: regulation and the flexible media regime in Spain / Philip Deacon 149

14 Politics and television news in Spain / Inaki Zabaleta 159

15 New media technologies in Spain: a healthy pluralism? / Richard Maxwell 170

16 The Spanish film industry in the 1980s and 1990s / Barry Jordan 179

17 Marketing with local culture in Spain: selling the transnational way / Richard Maxwell 193

Part IV Other Voices 201

18 Gendered images: constructions of masculinity and femininity in television advertising / Elvira Anton 205

19 Representation of alternative sexualities in contemporary Spanish writing and film / Jacky Collins 214

20 Changing subjects: gendered identities in ETA and radical Basque nationalism / Carrie Hamilton 223

21 Re-registering Spanish feminisms / Margaret Andrews, Anny Brooksbank Jones 233

22 Laws of silence: homosexual identity and visibility in contemporary Spanish culture / Alberto Mira 241

23 The politics and representation of disability in contemporary Spain / Madeline Conway 251

Part V Youth and Popular Cultures 261

24 The construction of youth in Spain in the 1980s and 1990s / Mark Allinson 265

25 A punk called Pedro: la movida in the films of Pedro Almodovar / Nuria Triana Toribio 274

26 Femme foetal: the triple terror of the young Basque woman in Pasajes / Ryan Prout 283

27 Media pleasures: reading the telenovela / Hugh O'Donnell 295

28 Football and fandom in Spain / Liz Crolley 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0340731214

0340731222

OCLC:

42579839