Territories of the Visual in Spain and Spanish America: Visual Studies and UK Hispanism

ISBN-13: 9781138309395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 174 str.

Jo Evans; Julia Biggane; Nuria Triana-Toribio

Opis

In this book, chapters explore current routes and future pathways for investigation into Spanish and Latin American cinema, theatre, sculpture, photography, and other visual-related areas. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Notes on the Future (and Past) of Spanish and Latin-American Media Studies  2. Cinephilia and the Unrepresentable in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu (2012)  3. Rethinking Spanish Visual Cultural Studies through an ‘Untimely’ Encounter with the Dance/Performance Art of La Ribot  4. History, Modernity and Atrocity in Mexican Visual Culture  5. The Disintegration of Spanish Cinema  6. Hispanism’s Digital Turn  7. Visual British Hispanism and the Puerto del Rosario ‘parque escultórico’  Postscript: ‘la travesía del desierto’

O autorze

Jo Evans is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University College London, UK. She specializes in twentieth-century Spanish film and literature. She has published widely on Spanish film and is the author of Moving Reflections: Gender, Faith and Aesthetics in the Work of Ángela Figuera Aymerich (1996) and Julio Medem (2007). She is Associate Editor of the research journal, Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Julia Biggane is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish culture, literature,　and　history. Her work has focused on the Sección Femenina of the Falange in Franco’s Spain, and she has written extensively on the work of Unamuno. She is a General Editor of the research journal, Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Núria Triana Toribio is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. She specializes in Spanish cinema and Hispanic film cultures, including popular genres and auteurism, film festivals, film legislation, and film criticism. She is co-editor of the book series 'Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers'.