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Informationen zum Autor Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish at New York University! where she directs the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. A founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies! she edits the series Remapping Cultural History. Her most recent books are Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2010) and the coedited volume Europe and Love in Cinema (2012). She is a participant in the research project Los medios audiovisuales en la transición española (1975-1985): Las imágenes del cambio democrático! directed by Manuel Palacio at the Universidad Carlos III! Madrid. Her research interests include modern Spanish literature! film! photography! popular culture! gender! and memory studies. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.Tatjana Pavloviæ is Associate Professor of Spanish at Tulane University in New Orleans. Her research and teaching interests center on twentieth-century Spanish intellectual history! literature! cultural studies! and film theory. She is author of the monograph Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesús Franco (2003) and coauthor of the comprehensive survey 100 Years of Spanish Cinema (2009). Her recent monograph The Mobile Nation (1954-1964): España cambia de piel (2011) focuses on a crucial period of transition in the history of Spanish mass culture! examining the publishing industry! the expansion of the television network! popular cinema! the development of mass tourism! and the national automobile manufacturing industry. Klappentext Spanish cinema has firmly established itself on the international film scene over the last two decades! and is now an integral part of the syllabus for students of Spanish and Cinema Studies. A Companion to Spanish Cinema closes a gap in existing scholarship! presenting an insightful and provocative collection of newly commissioned essays covering the whole time-span of Spanish cinema.Drawing on the best of the American! British! and Spanish critical traditions! twenty-six top international scholars discuss major issues in Spanish cinema from a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives. The volume's thematic approach to the history of Spanish cinema is unique in the field! and combines coverage of key topics with in-depth textual analysis of specific films. A rich mosaic of genres and formats are explored - from popular and art cinema to documentary! shorts! experimental film! and animation - as are the cultural! artistic! industrial! commercial! and theoretical contexts of the medium.An invaluable introduction to Spanish cinema for first-time students and teachers of Spanish culture! this companion also offers innovative models for future research that will benefit experienced scholars. "Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ( Choice , 1 September 2013) Zusammenfassung A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic! theoretical and historic perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments viiiList of Figures ixList of Contributors xviii1 Introduction 1Jo Labanyi and Tatjana PavloviæPart I Reframing the National 132 Transnational Frameworks 15Gerard Dapena! Marvin D'Lugo! and Alberto Elena3 Echoes and Traces: Catalan Cinema! or Cinema in Catalonia 50Brad Epps4 Negotiating the Local and the Global: Andalusia! the Basque Country! and Galicia 81José Colmeiro and Joseba GabilondoPart II The Construction of the Auteur 1115 Auteurism and the Construction of the Canon 113Marvin D'Lugo and Paul Julian Smith6 Strategic Auteurism 152Antonio Lázaro-Reboll! Steven Marsh! Susan Martin-Márquez! and Santos ZunzuneguiPart III Genre 1917 Comedy and Musicals 193Steven Marsh! Chris Perriam! Eva Woods Peiró! and S...
