Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre
By: edited by Jay Beck and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega.
Contributors: Rodríguez Ortega, Vicente.; Beck, Jay, 1966-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780719077753
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Spain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Fantastic Factory : the horror genre and contemporary Spanish cinema / Andrew Willis; title: Trailing the Spanish auteur : Almodóvar's, Amenábar's and de la Iglesia's generic routes in the US market / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega; title: 'Now playing everywhere' : Spanish horror film in the marketplace / Antonio Lázaro-Reboll; title: From Sevilla to the world : the transnational and transgeneric initiative of La Zanfoña Producciones / Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen; title: Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad : Spanishness, dark comedy and horror / Juan F. Egea; title: Tracing the past, dealing with the present : notes on the political thriller in contemporary Spanish cinema / Vicente J. Benet; title: Selling out Spain : screening capital and culture in Airbag and Smoking room / William J. Nichols; title: The transvestite figure and film noir : Pedro Almodóvar's transnational imaginary / Carla Marcantonio; title: Caressing the text : episodic erotics and generic structures in Ventura Pons's 'Minimalist trilogy' / David Scott Diffrient; title: Horror of allegory : The others and its contexts / Ernest R. Acevedo-Muñoz; title: Love, loneliness and laundromats : affect and artifice in the melodramas of Isabel Coixet / Belén Vidal; title: Dancing with 'Spanishness' : Hollywood codes and the site of memory in the contemporary film musical / Pietsie Feenstra; title: Immigration films : communicating conventions of (in)visibility in contemporary Spain / Maria Van Liew; title: Spanish-Cuban co-productions : tourism, transnational romance and anxieties of authenticity / Mariana Johnson.