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Spanish Screen Fiction - Between Cinema and Television (Paperback)
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Spanish Screen Fiction - Between Cinema and Television (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 3
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This pioneering book is the first to argue that cinema and
television in Spain only make sense when considered together as
twin vehicles for screen fiction. The Spanish audiovisual sector is
now one of the most successful in the world, with feature films
achieving wider distribution in foreign markets than nations with
better known cinematic traditions and newly innovative TV formats,
already dominant at home, now widely exported. Beyond the
industrial context, which has seen close convergence of the two
media, this book also examines the textual evidence for crossover
between cinema and television at the level of narrative and form.
The book, which is of interest to both Hispanic and media studies,
gives new readings of some well-known texts and discovers new or
forgotten ones. For example it compares Almodovar's classic feature
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios ('Women on the Verge of a
Nervous Breakdown') with his production company El Deseo's first
venture into TV production, the 2006 series also known as Mujeres
('Women'). It also reclaims the lost history of female flat share
comedy on Spanish TV from the 1960s to the present day. It examines
a wide range of prize winning workplace drama on TV, from police
shows, to hospital and legal series. Amenabar's Mar adentro ('The
Sea Inside') an Oscar-winning film on the theme of euthanasia, is
contrasted with its antecedent, an episode of national network
Tele5's top-rated drama Periodistas. The book also traces the
attempt to establish a Latin American genre, the telenovela, in the
very different context of Spanish scheduling. Finally it proposes
two new terms: 'Auteur TV' charts the careers of creators who have
established distinctive profiles in television over decades;
'sitcom cinema' charts, conversely, the incursion of television
aesthetics and economics into the film comedies that have proved
amongst the most popular features at the Spanish box office in the
last decade.
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