In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new
essays that explore the central role played by film, television,
newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural
identity and its position in the world economy during the
post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues of historical recuperation,
gender and sexuality, and the marketing of Spain's peaceful
political transformation, the contributors demonstrate that Spanish
cinema and other forms of Spanish media culture created new
national stereotypes and strengthened the nation's place in the
global market and on the global stage. These essays consider a
diverse array of texts, ranging from recent films by Almodovar,
Saura, Erice, Miro, Bigas Luna, Gutierrez Aragon, and Eloy de la
Iglesia to media coverage of the 1993 elections. Francoist cinema
and other popular media are examined in light of strategies used to
redefine Spain's cultural identity. The importance of the
documentary, the appropriation of Hollywood film, and the
significance of gender and sexuality in Spanish cinema are also
discussed, as is the discourse of the Spanish media star-whether
involving film celebrities like Rita Hayworth and Antonio Banderas
or historical figures such as Cervantes. The volume concludes with
an investigation of larger issues of government policy in relation
to film and media, including a discussion of the financing of
Spanish cinema and an exploration of the political dynamics of
regional television and art museums. Drawing on a wide range of
critical discourses, including feminist, postcolonial, and queer
theory, political economy, cultural history, and museum studies,
Refiguring Spain is the first comprehensive anthology on Spanish
cinema in the English language.Contributors. Peter Besas, Marvin
D'Lugo, Selma Reuben Holo, Dona M. Kercher, Marsha Kinder, Jaume
Marti-Olivella, Richard Maxwell, Hilary L. Neroni, Paul Julian
Smith, Roland B. Tolentino, Stephen Tropiano, Kathleen M. Vernon,
Inaki Zabaleta
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