Following Franco Spanish Culture and Politics in Transition

This book interrogates the interrelationship between culture and politics during the Spanish transition to democracy. Drawing on both high and popular culture, it critically interrogates the stakes of the Transition and reveals how its consequences continue to inform political debate.

About the author

Duncan Wheeler is Professor and Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds

Summary

This book interrogates the interrelationship between culture and politics during the Spanish transition to democracy. Drawing on both high and popular culture, it critically interrogates the stakes of the Transition and reveals how its consequences continue to inform political debate. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Duncan Wheeler
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781526105189
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0518-9
• Pages: 416
• Subjects: Eurovision Song Contest, Flamenco, Barcelona, MoMA, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Raphael, Pedro Almodóvar, Christopher Columbus, Real Madrid, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Madrid, Populism, Democracy, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Semprún, Prado, ETA, Podemos, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Cold War, Censorship, Transition, Francisco Franco, Federico García Lorca, Carlos Saura, Guernica, Political structures: democracy, Guardia Civil, Falange, Catholic Church, Santiago Carrillo, Social and cultural history, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Partido Popular, Dictatorship, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Felipe González, Spanish Civil War, Bullfighting, 1808 to c 2000 (Spanish Modern and Contemporary period), Celebrity Culture, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Eduardo Mendoza, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, Nazism, Catalan language, Second Spanish Republic, Francoism, PSOE, Sección Femenina, Juan March Foundation, Alfredo Sánchez Bella, Manuel Benítez, Antonio Tejero, Pasqual Maragall, Isabel Preysler, Francisco Umbral, Spanish Communist Party, Eloy de la Iglesia, Reza Shah, El Caudillo, quinqui, Alfonso Paso, Enrique Tierno Galván, NO-DO, Alfredo Matas, Felipe VI, Barça, Alaska (singer), Complutense University of Madrid, Teatro Real, Corín Tellado, ¡Hola!, Basque language, Mariano Rajoy, Carlos Barral, Nuevo Cine Español, El País, Pablo Iglesias, Joan Manuel Serrat, Carmen Martínez Bordiú, Enrique Sarasola, Josep Tarradellas, José María Aznar, Antonio Saura, Queen Sofía of Spain, Julio Iglesias, El crimen de Cuenca, Luis Migue Dominguín, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, Ricardo de la Cierva, Juan Carlos I, Nova Cançó, Javier Solana, Manuel Fraga, Jordi Pujol, Lola Flores, Los violadores del amanecer, Isabel Pantoja, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Tiempo de silencio, 1981 Spanish coup attempt, Carlos Robles Piquer, Carmen Martín Gaite, Blas Piñar, Alfonso Sastre, 1992 Summer Olympics, TVE, Catalan referendum, Juan Antoni Samaranch, Pilar Miró