Spanish spaces : landscape, space and place in contemporary Spanish culture / Ann Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Ann, 1961- author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 6.

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural geography--Spain.

Cultural geography.

Cultural landscapes--Spain.

Cultural landscapes.

Motion pictures--Spain--20th century--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Landscapes in motion pictures.

Landscapes in literature.

Spain--Social life and customs--21st century.

Spain.

Spain--Civilization--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain’s varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space and place. Spanish Spaces consists of thematic case studies (memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration as negotiated through cultural texts), selected for their currency and their links to each other and drawing on the explorations of these themes in contemporary Spanish film and literature. Throughout the chapters the author investigates what it means to think of space and place in specifically Spanish terms.

Contents:

Introduction

Memory : landscapes of the past in Guillermo del Toro's Spanish films

Forgetting : the landscapes of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Landscape and identities in the Basque country

Crime scene : landscape and the law of the land

Crime, scene, investigation : women, detection and the city

Coasting : tourism and landscape

Immigration : north (of) Africa

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781781387962

1781387966

9781846317750

1846317754

OCLC:

793510860

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access