Billy Wilder is more popular and glorified in Spain than anywhere else. Estados de Gracia traces this remarkable fact back to Wilder's key role in renewing the film repertoire under Franco. Even though Wilder's films were rewritten and censored in Francoist Spain, many viewers still found them far more exciting than most domestic productions. Drawing on a wealth of censorship files, reviews and dubbings, Estados de Gracia illuminates this paradoxical process of canonization despite censorship. Vandaele studies the censors and their activities, the manipulative translations, and...

Españoles en Europa: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros días focuses on exile as a great identifier of modern times. It constitutes a highly comprehensive view of Hispanic exile through a systematic, transnational and trans-historical perspective. Españoles en Europea: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros días se concentra en el fenómeno del exilio como gran identificador de tiempos modernos, abordándolo sistemáticamente desde una innovadora perspectiva transnacional y transhistórica.

In this book, Carlos van Tongeren offers a profound and innovative reflection on the intersections between comedy and melancholy, through detailed readings of almost twenty novels by key writers of detective fiction in the Spanish-speaking world. En este libro, Carlos van Tongeren ofrece una reflexión profunda e innovadora sobre las intersecciones entre la comedia y la melancolía, a través de una lectura sumisa de una veintena de novelas escritas por figuras clave de la ficción policiaca en el mundo hispanohablante.

El éxodo español de 1939: Una topología cultural del exilio explores the various stages of the relocation of culture in exile; from French concentration camps, on board ship and finally to residence in Mexico. En El éxodo español de 1939: Una topología cultural del exilio Mónica Jato estudia varias etapas de la experiencia espacial del exilio: en los campos de internamiento franceses, en los barcos rumbo a América y durante el asentamiento en México.

Award winner: Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art reconceptualizes mid-twentieth-century avant-garde practices in Argentina with a focus on the changing material status of the art object in relation to the country’s intense period of modernization. Elize Mazadiego presents Oscar Masotta’s notion of dematerialization as a concept for interpreting experimental art practices that negated the object’s primacy, while identifying their promise within the sociopolitical...