1. Introduction: texts and contexts
2. Post-Franco films of the post-war novel: aesthetics and history ; La colmena (Camus 1982): in search of authenticity ; Time of silence, time of protest: Tiempo de silencio (Aranda 1986)
3. Rural and urban spaces: violence and nostalgia in the country and the city ; Rural space ; Pascual Duarte (Franco 1976): Violence in absolute space ; Los santos inocentes (Camus 1984): Nostalgia for absolute space ; Urban space ; Historias del Kronen (Armendáriz 1995): Violence in abstract space ; Carícies (Pons 1998): Beyond abstract space
4. Re-vising the nineteenth-century novel: Gender and the adaptations of Fortunata y Jacinta and La regenta ; Clipped wings: Film and television adaptations of Fortunata y Jacinta ; Fortunata y Jacinta (Fons 1970) ; Fortunata y Jacinta (Camus 1980) ; The government of the gaze: film and television adaptations of La regenta ; La regenta (Gonzalo Suárez 1974) ; La regenta (Mendez Leite 1995)
5. Artful relation: Buñuel's Debt to Galdós ; Nazarín (Buñuel 1958): From uncertainty to censure ; Tristana (Buñuel 1970): From ambiguity to sabotage
6. Conclusion: cinema and history.