Changing perspectives at the Goya awards: migrant and ethnic identity construction in contemporary spanish cinema (2004-2011)

English: This doctoral thesis explores the social construction of migrant and ethnic identity representation, documenting what is being represented in Spanish contemporary film. It draws on the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, comparative literature, and film and media studies. The theoretical framework of this investigation was based on the theories of alterity and hybrid identities, and the notion of point of view, in particular the influence of director heritage in the evolution of these representations in national European cinemas. The principal corpus used in this thesis consists of sixty full-length feature fiction Spanish national films from the years 2002 to 2010 nominated for a Goya Award between the years 2004 to 2011. These films were selected due to their having been nominated for a Goya award, taking place in the present contemporary era, set in Spain as the physical location of the narrative, and having 100,000 or more spectators. They were examined for director heritage, film funding, inclusion of migrant and ethnic images, the narrative level of these characters as well as their nationality, gender, and age, film setting, language abilities, and occupations. This was followed by documentation on the rhetorical treatment of migrant and ethnic characters. These results are situated both in the wider Spanish cinema and in European cinema models in a comparative manner. They show the evolution of changes occurring in Spanish cinema and deal with questions that have not yet been addressed in Spanish cinema by the academic literature, for example the use of food as a metaphor for migrant assimilation or rejection and a treatment of relationships and sexual relationships according to mania, philia and phobia levels. Espanol: La presente tesis doctoral explora la construccion social de la identidad inmigrante y etnica a partir del cine espanol contemporaneo. Hace uso de una aproximacion metodologica interdisciplinar que comprende la critica postcolonial, la literatura comparada, los estudios culturales, los estudios sobre media y filmicos. El marco teorico de esta investigacion se ha basado en las teorias de la alteridad e identidad hibrida y en la nocion de punto de vista, en concreto la influencia de la herencia del director en la evolucion de estas imagenes de la inmigracion en diversos cines europeos nacionales. El corpus principal de la tesis esta compuesto por sesenta peliculas de ficcion espanolas producidas entre los anos 2002 y 2010, y nominadas para los premios Goya entre los anos 2004 y 2011. La seleccion se establecio a partir de su inclusion en dichas nominaciones a los Goya, la ambientacion contemporanea en territorio espanol y su visionado por una recepcion minima de 100.000 espectadores. A continuacion se han examinado estas peliculas en relacion a la herencia identitaria del director, la financiacion, y en cuanto a los personajes inmigrantes como su inclusion, nivel de protagonismo, la nacionalidad, el genero, la edad, las habilidades linguisticas y las profesiones, lo que se ha complementado con un analisis critico en torno al tratamiento retorico del Otro. Por ultimo, estos resultados se interpretan en relacion al cine espanol y europeo, modelos confrontados en terminos comparativos. Muestran la evolucion del cine espanol sobre dicha problematica y tratan cuestiones que no han sido analizadas aun por la bibliografia academica al uso, por ejemplo el uso de la comida como metafora para la asimilacion o el rechazo del inmigrante y la existencia de mania, filia o fobia en las relaciones romanticas y sexuales en el cine espanol.