Research Catalog

Title

Spanish practices : literature, cinema, television / Paul Julian Smith.

Author

Smith, Paul Julian.

Publication

London : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2012.

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Description

166 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Moving image ; 1

Uniform Title

Moving image (Modern Humanities Research Association) ; 1.

Subject

• Spanish literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Literature and society > Spain
• Motion pictures > Spain > History
• Motion pictures > Social aspects > Spain
• Motion pictures and television > Spain
• Television and literature > Spain

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I: Literature: history and memory -- 1. Winners and losers in cinema and memoirs. Emilio Martínez Lázaro's Las 13 rosas ('The 13 Roses', 2007) and Esther Tusquets' Habíamos gando la guerra ("We Had Won the War', 2007) -- 2. Resuscitating Franco in popular narrative and television. Vizcaíno Casa's ...Y al tercer añ̃o resucitó ('And in the Third Year he Rose Again", 1978) and Cuéntame cómo pasó ('Tell Me How It Happened', TVE 2001) -- 3. The audiovisual transition: cinema, television, and Muñoz Molina's El jinete polaco ('The Polish Horseman', 1991) -- Pt. II: Cinema: authority and society -- 4. A question of queer authorship: Almodóvar's unpublished short stories (1973) -- 5. Spanish cinema's missing children. Juan Antonio Bayona's El orfanato ('The Orphanage', 2007) and Jaime Rosales' La soledad ("Solitary Fragments', 2007) -- 6. Re-presenting the others: cinema and television on ethnicity and Immigration -- Pt. III: Television: genre and transitivity -- 7. Re-visions of Teresa. Josefina Molina's Teresa de Jeśus (TVE, 1984) and Ray Loriga's Teresa: el cuerpo de Cristo ('Teresa, the Body of Christ', 2007) -- 8. Hybrid fictions: television comedy between soap opera and pseudo-documentary. Los Serranop [Tele 5, 2003-08] and Camera café ('Coffee Cam', Tele 5, 2005-09) -- 9. Travelling narratives and transitional life strategies. Yo soy Bea ('I Am Bea', Tele 5, 2006-08) and Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-10) -- Conclusion: literature, cinema, television.

ISBN

• 9781907975042 (hbk.)
• 1907975047 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2012374366

OCLC

751836387

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Harvard Library