| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: film, television, transmedia -- Film. Spanish cinema of the 1980s -- Madrid de Cine: Spanish film screenings -- Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of post-auteurism -- Television. Media migration and cultural proximity: a specimen season of television drama -- LGBT TV Catalonia -- Televisual properties: the construction bubble in three TV series -- (Re)turn to transmedia. Towards transmedia: past and present of cinema and television in Spain -- A new paradigm for the Spanish audiovisual sector?: quality television/popular cinema -- Crisis fictions: novel, cinema, tv -- Conclusion: the audiovisual field in contemporary Spain. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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Spain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Spain -- History -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Television programs -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
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Television programs. |
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Television programs -- Spain -- History -- 21st century.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Reference. |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Paul Julian author. Spanish lessons New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785331084 (DLC) 2017016590 |
| ISBN |
9781785331091 (electronic book) |
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1785331094 (electronic book) |
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9781785331084 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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