Overview

The first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish film from 1896 to the present. Building on existing film and urban histories, this collection examines Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality, and mass culture from the industrial age to the digital present. Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together innovative scholarship from an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture, and urban studies scholars as they explore the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. The contributors explore a wide range of topics, including the role of film in the shifting relationship between private and public; the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited; the question of the mobile gaze; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; and the effects of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship. This engaging collection will interest anyone researching, teaching, and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban, and cultural studies.

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Author:   Susan Larson (University of Kentucky)
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781789384895

ISBN 10:   1789384893
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   02 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures  Acknowledgments Introduction Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies  Susan Larson   PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN  1.Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- AnalyticDocumentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez Benjamin Fraser 2.Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films Jorge Gorostiza   PART 2: MOBILITY 3.The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936  Nuria Rodríguez- Martín 4.Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: LuisLucia’s Cerca de la ciudad (1952) David Foshee Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film Tom Whittaker   PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS  6. An Archi- Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)  Juli Highfill 7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s El verdugo (1963)  Patricia Keller   PART 4: THE EVERYDAY  8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film  Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas 9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema  Emeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca   PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL  10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)?  Susan Larson and Carlos Sambricio 11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’  Vicente Sánchez- Biosca 12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- movida Films  Samuel Amago   PART 6: THE VIRTUAL  13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s 10.000km and Anchor and Hope  Leigh Mercer 14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban  Stephen Luis Vilaseca Notes on Contributors  Index 

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Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, the editor of Romance Quarterly, and the author of Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900–1936.

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