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This volume is a reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012, bringing leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds into dialogue with critically and commercially successful practitioners to suggest the need to redefine the parameters of one of the world's most creative national cinemas.
About the author
Duncan Wheeler is professor and chair of Spanish studies at the University of Leeds. His latest monograph is Following Franco: Spanish Culture and Politics in Transition (Manchester University Press, 2020). Duncan regularly writes for the Spanish and UK media through such outlets as the BBC, El País, The Economist, The Guardian, JotDown and the London Review of Books.
Contact: School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Fernando Canet is an associate professor in media and communication studies at the Fine Arts College (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain). He has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths College, New York University and University of Kent. He has been the guest editor of four Special Issues: Hispanic Research Journal on contemporary Spanish cinema, L’Atalante on reflexive practices in Spanish cinema, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies on perpetrator documentary film and Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies on documentary film mutations for social change. His latest articles have been published in Studies in Documentary Films, The Journal of Popular Culture, Popular Communication, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Screenwriting, International Journal of Cultural Studies and International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics.
Contact: Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, València 46022, Spain.
