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Spanish practices : literature, cinema, television
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Spanish practices : literature, cinema, television / Paul Julian Smith.
ISBN
135119285X (electronic bk)
1351192868
9781351192859 (electronic bk)
9781351192866
1907975047
9781907975042
Publication
London : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (166 pages : illustrations.).
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Summary
This title explores the interaction of three media in contemporary Spain. Focusing on some of the best known and important books, feature films, and television series in the country, it addresses three pairs of linked issues central to Hispanic studies: history and memory, authority and society, and genre and transitivity.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Moving image ; 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I: Literature: history and memory
1. Winners and losers in cinema and memoirs. Emilio Martínez Lázaro's Las 13 rosas ('The 13 Roses', 2007) and Esther Tusquets' Habíamos gando la guerra (We Had Won the War', 2007)
2. Resuscitating Franco in popular narrative and television. Vizcaíno Casa's ... Y al tercer añ̃o resucitó ('And in the Third Year he Rose Again, 1978) and Cuéntame cómo pasó ('Tell Me How It Happened', TVE 2001)
3. The audiovisual transition: cinema, television, and Muñoz Molina's El jinete polaco ('The Polish Horseman', 1991)
pt. II: Cinema: authority and society
4. A question of queer authorship: Almodóvar's unpublished short stories (1973)
5. Spanish cinema's missing children. Juan Antonio Bayona's El orfanato ('The Orphanage', 2007) and Jaime Rosales' La soledad (Solitary Fragments', 2007)
6. Re-presenting the others: cinema and television on ethnicity and Immigration
pt. III: Television: genre and transitivity
7. Re-visions of Teresa. Josefina Molina's Teresa de Jeśus (TVE, 1984) and Ray Loriga's Teresa: el cuerpo de Cristo ('Teresa, the Body of Christ', 2007)
8. Hybrid fictions: television comedy between soap opera and pseudo-documentary. Los Serranop [Tele 5, 2003-08] and Camera café ('Coffee Cam', Tele 5, 2005-09)
9. Travelling narratives and transitional life strategies. Yo soy Bea ('I Am Bea', Tele 5, 2006-08) and Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-10)
Conclusion: literature, cinema, television.
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