Spanish Lessons : : Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain / / Paul Julian Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Paul Julian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult. Whether generating new insights into the work of key figures like Pedro Almodóvar, comparing media depictions of Spain’s economic woes, or giving long-overdue critical attention to quality television series, Smith’s book is a consistently lively and accessible cultural investigation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Film, Television, Transmedia -- PART I Film -- CHAPTER 1 Spanish Cinema of the 1980s Two Approaches, Four Films -- CHAPTER 2 Madrid de Cine Spanish Film Screenings -- CHAPTER 3 Almodóvar’s Self-Fashioning The Economics and Aesthetics of Post-auteurism -- PART II Television -- CHAPTER 4 Media Migration and Cultural Proximity A Specimen Season of Television Drama -- CHAPTER 5 LGBT TV Catalonia -- CHAPTER 6 Televisual Properties The Construction Bubble in Three TV Series -- PART III (Re)Turn to Transmedia -- CHAPTER 7 Toward Transmedia Past and Present of Cinema and Television in Spain -- CHAPTER 8 A New Paradigm for the Spanish Audiovisual Sector? Popular Cinema/Quality Television -- CHAPTER 9 Crisis Fictions Novel, Cinema, TV -- Conclusion The Audiovisual Field in Contemporary Spain -- Bibliography -- Index