num_pages: 221
description: This book explores Antonio Munoz Molina's creation of narratives about Spain's immediate past by engaging in a dynamic dialogue with popular culture subgenres and the media. The author asserts that popular culture functions in Munoz Molina's novels as provider of a series of strategies that represent in the text aspects of Francoism and the Transition that, because of their relevance, are part of the structure of feeling of those periods. The study focuses on the role of popular music, film, photography, the thriller, the romance novel as well as the radio and other gadgets of modern technology in Munoz Molina's novels.
language: English
title: The Gaze on the Past: Popular Culture and History in Antonio Munoz Molina's Novels
titlecomplete: The Gaze on the Past: Popular Culture and History in Antonio Munoz Molina's Novels
ratings_count: 2
publisher: UNKNO