ABSTRACT
"This book is the first to explore the interaction of three media in contemporary Spain. Focusing on some of the best known and most important books, feature films, and television series in the country (including novelist Antonio Munoz Molina, director Pedro Almodovar, and the Spanish version of telenovela Ugly Betty), it addresses three pairs of linked issues central to Hispanic studies and beyond: history and memory, authority and society, and genre and transitivity. Much of the material is very recent and thus as yet unstudied. The book also focuses on the representation of gender, sexuality, and transnationalism in these texts. Drawing on approaches from both the humanities and social sciences it combines close readings of key texts with the analysis of production processes, media institutions, audiences, and reception."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|42 pages
Literature: History and Memory
chapter 1|14 pages
Winners and Losers in Cinema and Memoirs
chapter 2|14 pages
Resuscitating Franco in Popular Narrative and Television
chapter 3|13 pages
The Audiovisual Transition
part II|46 pages
Cinema: Authority and Society
chapter 5|19 pages
Spanish Cinema's Missing Children
part III|69 pages
Television: Genre and Transitivity