Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays.

Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. PDF Author: Andrés Zamora
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781384622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
The book explores post-Franco Spanish film’s tacit or explicit, but always resolute, essays from 1975 to 2000 to make over Spain’s national, in fact post-national, identity.

Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays.

Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays. PDF Author: Andrés Zamora
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781384622
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
The book explores post-Franco Spanish film’s tacit or explicit, but always resolute, essays from 1975 to 2000 to make over Spain’s national, in fact post-national, identity.

Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain

Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain PDF Author: Dean Allbritton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802076409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
The earliest traceable accounts of the AIDS outbreak in Spain began to emerge during its political transition to democracy, with small clusters of cases appearing as early as 1981. HIV/AIDS would go on to shape Spain throughout its pivotal period as a fledgling democracy, underpinning the cultural explosions of the Movida, a sharp rise in intravenous drug use, and the struggles of a coalescing LGBT+ community. Feeling Sick: The Early Years of HIV/AIDS in Spain examines the cultural history of these early years of HIV/AIDS in Spain as it has been told through television and print media, ephemeral products of visual culture, fiction film, and the so-called risk groups that lived through the epidemic. The book draws on the work of Raymond Williams to characterize this emergent period within a structure of “feeling sick” and thus defined by discordant voices, disagreement, and meaning-making in a period of history in formation. Through close readings of Spanish visual culture and media alongside analysis of historical and medical documents, it asserts that a structure of feeling sick begins to coalesce around the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces out a distinctive sense of living through history as it unfolds. By critically evaluating a selection of cultural materials, this book claims that the earliest years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Spain reveal common fears about global connectivity, the proliferation of vulnerable ties to others, and the potential of cultural and physical contaminations. Ultimately, Feeling Sick challenges the dominant narratives in which life and disease are seen as separate and unequal, and in which illness is only destructive and devastating. An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.

Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico

Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico PDF Author: Paul Julian Smith
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781383723
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
The first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries – Spain and Mexico -- where television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative

A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel

A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel PDF Author: Edward H. Friedman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855663678
Category : Picaresque literature, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired.

Postgrowth Imaginaries

Postgrowth Imaginaries PDF Author: Luis I. Prádanos
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786949369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Postgrowth Imaginaries brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis. The globalization of an economic culture addicted to constant growth destroys the ecological planetary systems while failing to fulfil its social promises. A transition toward what Prádanos calls ‘postgrowth imaginaries’—the counterhegemonic cultural sensibilities that are challenging the growth paradigm—is well underway in the Iberian Peninsula today.

Moving Verses

Moving Verses PDF Author: Ben Bollig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800859783
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Moving Verses analyses the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. How do film and poetry transform each another when placed into productive dialogue? Case-studies include Argentina's most exciting and radical contemporary directors as well as established modern masters, with a critical framework drawing on contemporary studies of intermediality and "impure" cinema.

Contested Identities in Costa Rica

Contested Identities in Costa Rica PDF Author: Liz Harvey-Kattou
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789624177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Costa Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful nations on earth. Beneath this façade, however, lies an exclusionary rhetoric of nationalism bound up in the concept of the tico, as many Costa Ricans refer to themselves. Beginning by considering the very idea of national identity and what this constitutes, this book explores the nature of the idealised tico identity, demonstrating the ways in which it has assumed a white supremacist, Central Valley-centric, patriarchal, heteronormative stance based on colonial ideals. Chapters two and three then go on to consider the literature and films produced that stand in opposition to this normative image of who or what is tico and their creation as vehicles of soft power which aim to question social norms. This book explores protest literature from the 1970s by Quince Duncan, Carmen Naranjo, and Alfonso Chase who narrate their experiences from the margins of society by virtue of their identity as Afro-Costa Rican, feminist, and homosexual authors. Cinema from the twenty-first century is then analysed to demonstrate the nuanced position chosen by national directors Esteban Ramírez, Paz Fábrega, Jurgen Ureña, and Patricia Velásquez to challenge the dominant nation-image as they reinscribe youth culture, a female consciousness, trans identity, and Afro-Costa Rica onto the fabric of the nation.

Transatlantic Studies

Transatlantic Studies PDF Author: Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Publisher:
ISBN: 1789620252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Book Description
This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.

Iberian and Translation Studies

Iberian and Translation Studies PDF Author: Esther Gimeno Ugalde
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800857403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Book Description
Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones offers fertile reflection on the dynamics of linguistic diversity and multifaceted literary translation flows taking place across the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical perspectives and on a historically diverse body of case studies, the volume’s sixteen chapters explore the key role of translation in shaping interliterary relations and cultural identities within Iberia. Mary Louise Pratt’s contact zone metaphor is used as an overarching concept to approach Iberia as a translation(al) space where languages and cultural systems (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish) set up relationships either of conflict, coercion, and resistance or of collaboration, hospitality, and solidarity. In bringing together a variety of essays by multilingual scholars whose conceptual and empirical research places itself at the intersection of translation and literary Iberian studies, the book opens up a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry: Iberian translation studies. This allows for a renewed study of canonical authors such as Joan Maragall, Fernando Pessoa, Camilo José Cela, and Bernardo Atxaga, and calls attention to emerging bilingual contemporary voices. In addition to addressing understudied genres (the entremez and the picaresque novel) and the phenomena of self-translation, indirect translation, and collaborative translation, the book provides fresh insights into Iberian cultural agents, mediators, and institutions.

The Ghost in the Constitution

The Ghost in the Constitution PDF Author: Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Book Description
A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.