Nathan Richardson

Constructing Spain

The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953-2003. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,5 cm / 15,7 cm / 2,5 cm ( B/H/T )

Buch (Hardcover), 356 Seiten

EAN 9781611483963

Veröffentlicht Dezember 2011

Verlag/Hersteller Bucknell University Press

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Beschreibung

Constructing Spain explores the interactions between culture, geography, and society over fifty years of recent Spanish history through close readings of over a dozen films and novels.

Portrait

Nathan Richardson is associate professor of Spanish at Bowling Green State University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction: Spanish Territories, Global Geographies: Exploring Space and Place in a New Spain A Short Spatial History of Spain Making Money Different(ly): Space and Capital, or the Urbanization of Consciousness Creating Space/Making Reality in a Third Millennium 2. The Production of Space and Place in Franco's Spain, 1953-1970 Once Upon a Place: ¡Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall! Este cuento se ha acabado: the Spanish State in the Late Francoist Era, 1953-1970 The Ends of Spanish Space: Reivindicación del Conde don Julián 3. Building Beyond Spain: Readings from the Spanish Novel, 1970-1989 The Beginning of a Promising Friendship: El invierno en Lisboa and the Flows of Postmodern Space A Nation-State of Shadows: Muñoz Molina's Beltenebros, 1944-1989 Antonio Muñoz Molina (1991- ): Riding Beyond the Storm 4. Sacred Spain: Creative Destruction in the Spanish Cinema, 1961-2000 The Postsecularization Thesis, or Buñuel's Desperate Call for Life: Viridiana 1975-1990: Secular Disenchantment and Sacred Movidas 1990-2000: The Rituals of Design, Corruption, and Consumption in El día de la bestia 1990-2000, II: Cyber-Messiahs in a New Spain: Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos 5. The World Will Be Redonda, or the Dark Back of Community: the Narrative World of Javier Marías, 1989-1996 Searching for Community in a Syrup-preserved World: Todas las almas The Rise of a Kingdom: Corazón tan blanco, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, and other Marías challenges, 1989-1996 Arriving at Redonda: Negra espalda del tiempo 6. Preserving the House While Pursuing the World: Julio Medem's Engagement with Basque Space, from Vacas to La Pelota Vasca, 1992-2003 Vacas: Rethinking (Again and Again) Intimate Basque Space Expanding Basqueland: La ardilla roja and Tierra Circling Eden: Los amantes del círculo polar From Euskal Herria to Euskal Hirria, or How to Build a New Basque City: La pelota vasca Afterward: Spanish Grammars of Creation: Re-conceiving, Perceiving, and Practicing Space for the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index