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Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to
Federico Garcia Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the
issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated
poet and dramatist. It considers past and current approaches to the
study of Lorca, and also suggests new directions for further
investigation. An introduction on the often contentious subject of
Lorca's biography is followed by five chapters - poetry, theatre,
music, drawing and cinema - which togetheracknowledge the polymath
in Lorca. A further three chapters - religion, gender and
sexuality, and politics - complete the volume by covering important
thematic concerns across a number of texts, concerns which must be
considered in the context of the iconic status that Lorca has
acquired and against the background of the cultural shifts
affecting his readership. The Companion is a testament to Lorca's
enduring appeal and, through its explication oftexts and
investigation of the man, demonstrates just why he continues, and
should continue, to attract scholarly interest. FEDERICO BONADDIO
lectures in Modern Spanish Studies at King's College London.
CONTRIBUTORS: FEDERICO BONADDIO, JACQUELINE COCKBURN, NIGEL DENNIS,
CHRISTOPHER MAURER, ALBERTO MIRA, ANTONIO MONEGAL, CHRIS PERRIAM,
XON DE ROS, ERIC SOUTHWORTH, D. GARETH WALTERS, SARAH WRIGHT
This title examines filmmaking, festivals, queer lives and cultures
in Spain since 1998. Since the Catalan government passed the first
of Spain's regional governmental laws on same-sex partnership in
1998, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer culture in
Spain has thrived. Spanish Queer Cinema assesses the impact of this
significant cultural expression on Spanish Cinema and evaluates the
role LGBTQ film has had in creating and shaping identity and
experience. Focusing on films from 1998 to the present day, Chris
Perriam skilfully analyses the development of LGBTQ filmmaking and
filmwatching in Spain and places this within the wider cultural
context. Covering lesbian cinema, gay and queer documentaries and
short films, as well as mainstream features, the book investigates
how these films are distributed and how audiences react to them. An
informative and thought-provoking book, Spanish Queer Cinema is an
essential read for students and scholars working in the fields of
Film Studies, Spanish Studies and Cultural Studies. It clarifies
the issue of what 'queer' can signify in Spanish contexts and
privileges non-'gay' cultural production. It takes full account of
lesbian film culture in Spain. It covers short and documentary film
production as well as commercially-pitched feature films. It makes
extensive use of social networking sites and the popular LGBT press
to gauge response. It devotes space to the closely related cultural
industries of popular fiction and its sales and distribution, and
to the relations of script to screen.
Headline: Examines how LGBT filmmaking in France and Spain moves
across borders and finds new audiences Blurb: The book advances the
current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of
sexuality in transnational contexts by analysing how French LGBTQ
films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France. It studies
films (in various media and platforms) and their reception across
four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and considers
and engages with participants from across a range of digital and
physical audience locations, with a particular focus on festivals.
It examines films that chronicle the local (in portraying national
and sub-national identities) and draws on the regional-global
(translating and transferring foreign models of non-heterosexual
experience). No comparative and crosscutting study with audience
research at its heart has yet been undertaken. Key Features: Offers
a full, clear, and comparative cultural history of LGBTQ film since
the 1990s in France and Spain and of its activist and
theory-inspired connections Has audience reception at the core,
working with an extensive corpus of responses Makes broad use of
social networking sites and the popular LGBTQ press to gauge
response Covers LGBTQ festivals including those in Barcelona,
Bilbao, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Paris and Toulouse Is
interested in short, independent, ephemeral and documentary film
production as well as commercially-pitched feature films Looks at
the cross-border impact of the auteur and big-name directors (e.g.
Pedro Almodovar, Cesc Gay, Sebastien Lifshitz, Francois Ozon) Sets
its findings against mainstream LGBTQ critical reception, written
in Catalan, English, French, and Spanish Keywords: French cinema;
Spanish cinema; audiences; LGBTQ cultures; lesbian and gay film
festivals Subject: Film Studies Headline: Examines how LGBT
filmmaking in France and Spain moves across borders and finds new
audiences Blurb: The book advances the current state of film
audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in
transnational contexts by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen
in Spain and Spanish ones in France. It studies films (in various
media and platforms) and their reception across four languages
(Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and considers and engages with
participants from across a range of digital and physical audience
locations, with a particular focus on festivals. It examines films
that chronicle the local (in portraying national and sub-national
identities) and draws on the regional-global (translating and
transferring foreign models of non-heterosexual experience). No
comparative and crosscutting study with audience research at its
heart has yet been undertaken. Key Features: Offers a full, clear,
and comparative cultural history of LGBTQ film since the 1990s in
France and Spain and of its activist and theory-inspired
connections Has audience reception at the core, working with an
extensive corpus of responses Makes broad use of social networking
sites and the popular LGBTQ press to gauge response Covers LGBTQ
festivals including those in Barcelona, Bilbao, London, Lyon,
Madrid, Manchester, Paris and Toulouse Is interested in short,
independent, ephemeral and documentary film production as well as
commercially-pitched feature films Looks at the cross-border impact
of the auteur and big-name directors (e.g. Pedro Almodovar, Cesc
Gay, Sebastien Lifshitz, Francois Ozon) Sets its findings against
mainstream LGBTQ critical reception, written in Catalan, English,
French, and Spanish Keywords: French cinema; Spanish cinema;
audiences; LGBTQ cultures; lesbian and gay film festivals Subject:
Film Studies
Tackling subjects as varied as Madrid night-life, the necessity of
alcohol, Renaissance art, sex, the importance of scholarship, boys
on motor scooters, the nature of love, Plato, blue jeans,
classicism and rock music, Luis Antonio de Villena (b.1951) is one
of modern Spain's best-known writers. Although far from being
realist, his work engages indirectly with historical phenomena in
surprising and complex ways. This introduction to a provocative and
sophisticated writer situates Villena's creative work in relation
to the contemporary Spanish cultural scene, to 20th-century
homosexual culture and to significant gay and dissident figures of
the past, including Lorca and Luis Cernuda. The author explains how
Villena has developed a radical new aesthetic out of the old raw
materials of love, sex, death, power and the primacy of art and
desire.
This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the
cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider
discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an
object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label.
The editors and distinguished group of contributors offer a range
of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the
developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. They refine
and redefine key concepts in film studies, including identification
and identity, narrative and realism, allegory and the national
project, auteurism and the popular, art and genre. They re-evaluate
how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical, cultural and
political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in the
age of the moving image, and explore the interconnectedness of
films produced worldwide, as well as the links between cinema and
other visual cultural forms. The contributors include: John
Caughie, Felicia Chan, Tiago de Luca, Rajinder Dudrah, Song Hwee
Lim, Laura Mulvey, Lucia Nagib, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Chris
Perriam, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith, and Ismail Xavier.
This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the
cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider
discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an
object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label.
The editors and distinguished group of contributors offer a range
of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the
developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. They refine
and redefine key concepts in film studies, including identification
and identity, narrative and realism, allegory and the national
project, auteurism and the popular, art and genre. They re-evaluate
how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical, cultural and
political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in the
age of the moving image, and explore the interconnectedness of
films produced worldwide, as well as the links between cinema and
other visual cultural forms. The contributors include: John
Caughie, Felicia Chan, Tiago de Luca, Rajinder Dudrah, Song Hwee
Lim, Laura Mulvey, Lucia Nagib, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Chris
Perriam, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith, and Ismail Xavier.
Headline: Examines how LGBT filmmaking in France and Spain moves
across borders and finds new audiences Blurb: The book advances the
current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of
sexuality in transnational contexts by analysing how French LGBTQ
films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France. It studies
films (in various media and platforms) and their reception across
four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and considers
and engages with participants from across a range of digital and
physical audience locations, with a particular focus on festivals.
It examines films that chronicle the local (in portraying national
and sub-national identities) and draws on the regional-global
(translating and transferring foreign models of non-heterosexual
experience). No comparative and crosscutting study with audience
research at its heart has yet been undertaken. Key Features: Offers
a full, clear, and comparative cultural history of LGBTQ film since
the 1990s in France and Spain and of its activist and
theory-inspired connections Has audience reception at the core,
working with an extensive corpus of responses Makes broad use of
social networking sites and the popular LGBTQ press to gauge
response Covers LGBTQ festivals including those in Barcelona,
Bilbao, London, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Paris and Toulouse Is
interested in short, independent, ephemeral and documentary film
production as well as commercially-pitched feature films Looks at
the cross-border impact of the auteur and big-name directors (e.g.
Pedro Almodovar, Cesc Gay, Sebastien Lifshitz, Francois Ozon) Sets
its findings against mainstream LGBTQ critical reception, written
in Catalan, English, French, and Spanish Keywords: French cinema;
Spanish cinema; audiences; LGBTQ cultures; lesbian and gay film
festivals Subject: Film Studies Headline: Examines how LGBT
filmmaking in France and Spain moves across borders and finds new
audiences Blurb: The book advances the current state of film
audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in
transnational contexts by analysing how French LGBTQ films are seen
in Spain and Spanish ones in France. It studies films (in various
media and platforms) and their reception across four languages
(Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and considers and engages with
participants from across a range of digital and physical audience
locations, with a particular focus on festivals. It examines films
that chronicle the local (in portraying national and sub-national
identities) and draws on the regional-global (translating and
transferring foreign models of non-heterosexual experience). No
comparative and crosscutting study with audience research at its
heart has yet been undertaken. Key Features: Offers a full, clear,
and comparative cultural history of LGBTQ film since the 1990s in
France and Spain and of its activist and theory-inspired
connections Has audience reception at the core, working with an
extensive corpus of responses Makes broad use of social networking
sites and the popular LGBTQ press to gauge response Covers LGBTQ
festivals including those in Barcelona, Bilbao, London, Lyon,
Madrid, Manchester, Paris and Toulouse Is interested in short,
independent, ephemeral and documentary film production as well as
commercially-pitched feature films Looks at the cross-border impact
of the auteur and big-name directors (e.g. Pedro Almodovar, Cesc
Gay, Sebastien Lifshitz, Francois Ozon) Sets its findings against
mainstream LGBTQ critical reception, written in Catalan, English,
French, and Spanish Keywords: French cinema; Spanish cinema;
audiences; LGBTQ cultures; lesbian and gay film festivals Subject:
Film Studies
This book examines filmmaking, festivals, queer lives and cultures
in Spain since 1998. Since the Catalan government passed the first
of Spain's regional governmental laws on same-sex partnership in
1998, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer culture in
Spain has thrived. Spanish Queer Cinema assesses the impact of this
significant cultural expression on Spanish Cinema and evaluates the
role LGBTQ film has had in creating and shaping identity and
experience. Focusing on films from 1998 to the present day, Chris
Perriam skilfully analyses the development of LGBTQ filmmaking and
filmwatching in Spain and places this within the wider cultural
context. Covering lesbian cinema, gay and queer documentaries and
short films, as well as mainstream features, the book investigates
how these films are distributed and how audiences react to them. An
informative and thought-provoking book, Spanish Queer Cinema is an
essential read for students and scholars working in the fields of
Film Studies, Spanish Studies and Cultural Studies. It clarifies
the issue of what 'queer' can signify in Spanish contexts. It takes
full account of lesbian film culture in Spain. It covers short and
documentary film production as well as commercially-pitched feature
films. It makes extensive use of social networking sites and the
popular LGBT press to gauge response. It devotes space to the
closely related cultural industries of popular fiction and its
sales and distribution, and to the relations of script to screen.
This new history extends Modern Spanish literature into the late twentieth century and explores imaginative writings often ignored outside Spain. Extensive treatments of famous names are balanced by discussions of non-canonical and non-literary work. Thematic rather than chronological, the book places its texts in a variety of social, imaginary, and intellectual contexts.
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