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This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emotion, location and nostalgia.
The first two chapters focus on emotion. They analyze the ‘emotional imperative’ in a recent Almodóvar feature film and in Spanish television’s top-rated period drama, and investigate the politics of affect in TV drama in the last decade. The next pair of chapters deal with location. They use cultural geography to re-read contradictory accounts of the movida (the post-Franco cultural boom) and examine an attempt to anchor a US-derived genre (the youth movie) in the urban landscape of Madrid. The fifth and sixth chapters introduce the theme of location into nostalgia. They treat the unique cases of a successful Spanish heritage movie and a contemporary Spanish thriller remade in Hollywood. The peunultimate chapter investigates electronic artists and the virtual universe, and the book ends with a look at the implications of Hispano-Mexican co-productions and the interconnectedness of economic and aesthetic cultural forms.
Introduction: Three media, three themes
1 The emotional imperative: Almodóvar’s Hable con ella (Talk to Her) and Televisión Española’s Cuéntame cómo pasó (“Tell Me How It Happened”)
2 Family plots: The politics of affect in television drama of the millennium
3 The movida relocated: press, chronicle, novel
4 Towards the Spanish youthmovie: Historias del Kronen
5 Spanish heritage, spanish cinema: The strange case of Juana la Loca
6 High anxiety: Amenábar’s Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruise’s Vanilla Sky
7 Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art
8 Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films