This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years. The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards. It brings together European and North American scholars to establish a critical dialogue on the topics under discussion, while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. In recent years film scholarship has attempted to negotiate the tension between the nationally specific and the internationally ubiquitous, discussing how globalisation has influenced film making and surrounding cultural practice. These broader social concerns have prompted scholars to emphasise a redefinition of national cinemas beyond strict national boundaries and to pay attention to the transnational character of any national site of film production and reception. This collection provides a thorough investigation of contemporary Spanish cinema within a transnational framework, by positing cinematic genres as the meeting spaces between a variety of diverse forces that necessarily operate within but also across territorial spaces. Paying close attention to the specifics of the Spanish cinematic and social panorama, the essays investigate the transnational economic, cultural and aesthetic forces at play in shaping Spanish film genres today. -- .

Este estudio aborda un conjunto de peliculas de la filmografia iberoamericana donde el autor reflexiona en torno a los abusos de la Iglesia Catolica, el racismo, el sexismo, la xenofobia, los autoritarismos, la corrupcion politica y economica, la homofobia y la violencia contra las minorias. Con ello se busca mostrar un abanico amplio de perspectivas criticas, para que el lector pueda encontrar puntos de contacto con sus propios temores y ansiedades en una contemporaneidad cada vez mas fragmentada y polarizada.

Este libro aborda la produccion cultural en Espana y Latinoamerica en los anos noventa del siglo XX, desde una variedad de perspectivas historicas y metodologicas. Este es un periodo decisivo para discernir la configuracion socio-historica contemporanea dado que el mundo en que vivimos es, en gran parte, heredero de los cambios que se produjeron durante esta decada.El volumen se divide en tres partes. La primera, "Flujos transnacionales de produccion, representacion y consumo", explora una serie de conexiones entre el audiovisual europeo y el latinoamericano; la segunda, "Cine comercial, independiente y documental: teoria y praxis", estudia diferentes aspectos del panorama cinematografico espanol; la tercera, "Television, musica y cultura popular", aborda cambios sustanciales en diversos ambi-tos culturales en Espana y Brasil, y analiza una serie de artefactos contemporaneos que reevaluan los anos noventa

This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema. Providing a variety of critical perspectives, the collection gives the reader a thorough account of the relationship between Spanish cinema and genre, drawing on case studies of several of the most remarkable Spanish films in recent years. The book analyses the significant changes in the aesthetics, production and reception of Spanish film from 1990 onwards. It brings together European and North American scholars to establish a critical dialogue on the topics under discussion, while providing multiple perspectives on the concepts of national cinemas and genre theory. In recent years film scholarship has attempted to negotiate the tension between the nationally specific and the internationally ubiquitous, discussing how globalisation has influenced film making and surrounding cultural practice. These broader social concerns have prompted scholars to emphasise a redefinition of national cinemas beyond strict national boundaries and to pay attention to the transnational character of any national site of film production and reception. This collection provides a thorough investigation of contemporary Spanish cinema within a transnational framework, by positing cinematic genres as the meeting spaces between a variety of diverse forces that necessarily operate within but also across territorial spaces. Paying close attention to the specifics of the Spanish cinematic and social panorama, the essays investigate the transnational economic, cultural and aesthetic forces at play in shaping Spanish film genres today. -- .