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This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in
its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the
Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes
explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial
accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and
repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and
the modification of gender roles; and the role of trauma and memory
within the genres of the novel, autobiography, testimonial
literature, the essay, documentaries, puppet theater, poetry, and
visual art. By looking at the similarities and differences of
dictatorships represented in the diverse landscapes of Latin
America and Spain, the authors hope to provide a more panoramic
view of the dictatorship that moves beyond historiographical
accounts of oppression and engages actively in a more broad
dialectics of resistance and a politics of memory.
This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European
Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global
economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and
humanitarian crisis. With the recession having become a popular
theme of economic, demographic, and sociological research in recent
years, this volume examines representations of the crisis and its
attendant market instability and mistrust of neoliberal political
systems in film. It thus sheds light on the mediation,
reimagination, and reformulation of recent history in the depiction
of personal, cultural, and political memories, and raises new
questions about crisis narratives in European film, asking whether
the theoretical notion of "national" cinema is less or more
powerful during moments of sociopolitical turbulence, and
investigating the kinds of cultural representations and themes that
characterize the narratives of European documentary and fictional
films from both small and large national markets.
This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European
Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global
economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and
humanitarian crisis. With the recession having become a popular
theme of economic, demographic, and sociological research in recent
years, this volume examines representations of the crisis and its
attendant market instability and mistrust of neoliberal political
systems in film. It thus sheds light on the mediation,
reimagination, and reformulation of recent history in the depiction
of personal, cultural, and political memories, and raises new
questions about crisis narratives in European film, asking whether
the theoretical notion of "national" cinema is less or more
powerful during moments of sociopolitical turbulence, and
investigating the kinds of cultural representations and themes that
characterize the narratives of European documentary and fictional
films from both small and large national markets.
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are
shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and
striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to
be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since
Franco's dictatorship? What are the dynamics of masculinity in
contemporary Spanish culture? How has hegemonic masculinity been
contested in cultural productions? This volume is comprised of
sixteen essays that address these very questions by examining
literary, cultural and film representations of the configurations
of masculinities in contemporary Spain. Divided into three thematic
units, starting with the undermining of the monolithic Francoist
archetype of masculinity, continuing with the reformulation of
hegemonic masculinity and finishing with regional emergent
masculinities, all of the volumes essays focus on the redefinition
of Spanish masculinities. Principal themes of the volume include
alternative families, queer masculinities, performative
masculinities, memory and resistance to hegemonic discourses of
manliness, violence and emotions, public versus private
masculinities, regional masculinities, and marginal masculinities.
This exploration not only produces new insights into masculinity,
but also yields nuanced insights into the recuperation of memory in
contemporary Spain, the reconfiguration of the family, the status
of women in Spanish society, and regional identities.
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are
shaping global identities in contemporary Spain. This volume is
comprised of twenty essays that examine literary, documentary, and
film representations of the multicultural configurations of Spain.
All of the essays treat multiculturalism in Spain, focusing on
reconfigured Spanish cities and neighborhoods through Latin
American, African, and/or Eastern European migrations and cultures.
Principal themes of the volume include urban space and access to
resources, responses to the economic crisis, emerging family
portraits, public versus private spaces, the local and the global,
marginalities, migrations, and public expression of human and civil
rights. This project examines the intercultural exchange that takes
place in recent productions against an imaginary homogeneous
Spanish national identity. These films, documentaries, and
narratives seek to unsettle the Spanish preconceptions of the
"Other(s)." Therefore, these texts construct a hybrid concept of
the nation in which perceived national identities can be altered by
interactions with other cultures from a broader world. The
originality of the work lies in its focus on contemporary Spanish
literature, documentaries, and fictional film to foment exploration
of how Spanish cities, big and small, are experiencing
transformation in architecture, popular customs and festivals,
economics, family dynamics, and social and political agency through
the arrival of new residents from across the globe. Some of the
essays question the very legitimacy of the term 'multiculturalism,'
others examine the formation of new communities, and still others
explore the changes in religious representations and the
environmental effects of the tourist industry. Together, the essays
offer a compelling portrait of the changing face of contemporary
Spain.
This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in
its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the
Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes
explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial
accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and
repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and
the modification of gender roles; and the role of trauma and memory
within the genres of the novel, autobiography, testimonial
literature, the essay, documentaries, puppet theater, poetry, and
visual art. By looking at the similarities and differences of
dictatorships represented in the diverse landscapes of Latin
America and Spain, the authors hope to provide a more panoramic
view of the dictatorship that moves beyond historiographical
accounts of oppression and engages actively in a more broad
dialectics of resistance and a politics of memory.
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are
shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and
striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to
be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since
Franco's dictatorship? What are the dynamics of masculinity in
contemporary Spanish culture? How has hegemonic masculinity been
contested in cultural productions? This volume is comprised of
sixteen essays that address these very questions by examining
literary, cultural and film representations of the configurations
of masculinities in contemporary Spain. Divided into three thematic
units, starting with the undermining of the monolithic Francoist
archetype of masculinity, continuing with the reformulation of
hegemonic masculinity and finishing with regional emergent
masculinities, all of the volumes essays focus on the redefinition
of Spanish masculinities. Principal themes of the volume include
alternative families, queer masculinities, performative
masculinities, memory and resistance to hegemonic discourses of
manliness, violence and emotions, public versus private
masculinities, regional masculinities, and marginal masculinities.
This exploration not only produces new insights into masculinity,
but also yields nuanced insights into the recuperation of memory in
contemporary Spain, the reconfiguration of the family, the status
of women in Spanish society, and regional identities.
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