Book description
A Companion to Spanish Cinema
is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top
international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from
a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives.
- Presents an insightful and provocative collection of newly
commissioned essays and original research by top international
scholars from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary and
geographical perspectives
- Offers a systematic historical, thematic, and theoretical approach
to Spanish cinema, unique in the field
- Combines a thorough and insightful study of a wide spectrum of
topics and issues with in-depth textual analysis of specific films
- Explores Spanish cinema's cultural, artistic, industrial,
theoretical and commercial contexts pre- and post-1975 and the
notion of a “national” cinema
- Canonical directors and stars are examined alongside understudied
directors, screenwriters, editors, and secondary actors
- Presents original research on image and sound; genre; non-fiction
film; institutions, audiences and industry; and relations to other
media, as well as a theoretically-driven section designed to
stimulate innovative research
Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish at New York University,
where she directs the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. A founding
editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, she edits
the series Remapping Cultural History. Her most recent books
are Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010) and
the coedited volume Europe and Love in Cinema (2012). She is a
participant in the research project Los medios audiovisuales en la
transición española (1975-1985): Las imágenes del cambio
democrático, directed by Manuel Palacio at the Universidad Carlos
III, Madrid. Her research interests include modern Spanish literature,
film, photography, popular culture, gender, and memory studies. She
was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.
Tatjana Pavloviæ is Associate Professor of Spanish at Tulane
University in New Orleans. Her research and teaching interests center
on twentieth-century Spanish intellectual history, literature,
cultural studies, and film theory. She is author of the monograph
Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from
Francisco Franco to Jesús Franco (2003) and coauthor of the
comprehensive survey 100 Years of Spanish Cinema (2009). Her
recent monograph The Mobile Nation (1954-1964): España cambia de
piel (2011) focuses on a crucial period of transition in the
history of Spanish mass culture, examining the publishing industry,
the expansion of the television network, popular cinema, the
development of mass tourism, and the national automobile manufacturing industry.
