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"The relationships between history, sexuality, and economy as offered by Marsha Kinder in "Refiguring Spain" are dynamic and mobile. The vision and the implementation of her study are impeccable. She at once configures an order of meaning in the recent past and offers a predictive model for what will continue to happen in the future."--Tom Conley, Harvard University
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Refiguring Socialist Spain: An Introduction / Marsha Kinder 1
Part 1: Historical Recuperation 33
Reading Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema: From Trade Wars to Transculturation / Kathleen M. Vernon 35
Documenting the National and Its Subversion in a Democratic Spain / Marsha Kinder 65
The Marketing of Cervantine Magic for a New Global Image of Spain / Dona M. Kercher 99
Nations, Nationalisms, and
Los últimos de Filipinas: An Imperialist Desire for Colonialist Nostalgia / Roland B. Tolentino 133
Part 2: Sexual Reinscription 155
Out of the Cinematic Closet: Homosexuality in the Films of Eloy de la Iglesia / Stephen Tropiano 157
Pornography, Masculinity, Homosexuality: Almodóvar's
Matador and
La ley del deseo / Paul Julian Smith 178
La teta i la lluna: The Form of Transnational Cinema in Spain / Marvin D'Lugo 196
Regendering Spain's Political Bodies: Nationality and Gender in the Films of Pilar Miró and Arantxa Lazcano / Jaume Martí-Olivella 215
Part 3: Marketing Transfiguration: Money/Politics/Regionalism 239
The Financial Structure of Spanish Cinema / Peter Besas 241
Spatial Eruptions, Global Grids: Regionalist TV in Spain and Dialectics of Identity Politics / Richard Maxwell 260
Private Commercial Television versus Political Diversity: The Case of Spain's 1993 General Elections / Iñaki Zabaleta 284
The Art Museum as a Means of Refiguring Regional Identity in Democratic Spain / Selma Reuben Holo 301
Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Works on Spanish Films / Hilary L. Neroni 327
Contributors 347
Index 351
About the author
Marsha Kinder is Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. She is author of Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain.
Summary
Features essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. This title examines Francoist cinema and other popular media in light of strategies used to redefine Spain's cultural identity.
