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Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences
with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In
Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in
Fiction and Film, Nathan Richardson explores relations between
cultural representation and spatial transformation across fifty
years of Spanish culture. Beginning in 1953, the year Spanish space
was officially reopened to Western thought and capital, and
culminating in 2003, the year of Aznar s unpopular involvement of
his country in the second Iraq War, Richardson traces in popular
and critically acclaimed fiction and film an evolution in Spanish
storytelling that, while initially representative in nature,
increasingly engages its audience in spatial practices that go
beyond mere perception or conception of local material geographies.
In original readings of films by Luis Berlanga, Luis Bunuel, Alex
de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenabar, and Julio Medem, and novels by
Juan Goytisolo, Antonio Munoz Molina, and Javier Marias, Richardson
shows this formal evolution as a necessary response to
developments, restorations, and transformations of local landscapes
that resulted during these years from various human migrations,
tourist-invasions, urban development plans, resurgent nationalisms,
and finally globalization. As these changes occur, Richardson
traces a shift in the works studied from mere representation of
spatial change toward actual engagement with shifting physical and
social geographies, as they inch ever closer toward the production
of an actual spatial experience for their audiences. In the final
chapters of this book, Richardson offers in-depth and highly
original readings of the storytelling projects of Medem and Marias
in particular, showing how these two artists invite readers to not
only reconceive hegemonic notions of space and place, but to
practice alternative notions of being-in-place. In these final
readings, Constructing Spain, points to the newest developments in
contemporary Spanish narrative and film, a rise of new grammars of
creation to challenge the ongoing capital-driven creative
destruction of globalized Spanish geography.
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- Structured thematically to align with the process and
project-driven nature of professional designers, in academia and
practice - Identifies and articulates new forms of practice that
are increasingly unbound by conventional territories, procedures,
and strategic objectives - Includes open-ended set of activities,
charts, worksheets, and discussion questions to foster
entrepreneurial thinking in formative projects and practices -
Includes curated selection of contemporary examples of
entrepreneurship around the world and interviews from leading
entrepreneurs and design professionals
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