Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction

The authors include both established and young academics and the essays are readable and informative./Forum for Modern Language Studies 35 : 4 1999

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Culture and Modernity: The Case of Spain ; I: ELITES IN CRISIS, 1898-1931 ; NATIONAL IDENTITIES ; 2. The Loss of Empire, Regenerationism, and the Forging of a Myth of National Identity ; 3. The Nationalisms of the Periphery: Culture and Politics in the Construction of National Identity ; IDEOLOGICAL TENSIONS ; 4. The Social Praxis and Cultural Politics of Spanish Catholicism ; 5. Education and the Limits of Liberalism ; MODERNISMO AND MODERNISME ; 6. Literary Modernismo in Castilian: The Creation of a Dissident Cultural Elite ; 7. Catalan Literary Modernisme and Noucentisme: From Dissidence to Order ; 8. Catalan Modernista Architecture: Using the Past to Build the Modern ; THE AVANT-GARDE ; 9. The Literary Avant-Garde: A Contradictory Modernity ; 10. Internationalism and Eclecticism: Surrealism and the Avant-Garde in Painting and Film, 1920-1930 ; 11. The Musical Avant-Garde: Modernity and Tradition ; POPULAR CULTURE ; 12. Rural and Urban Popular Cultures ; 13. The Cuple: Modernity and Mass Culture ; II: THE FAILURE OF DEMOCRATIC MODERNIZATION, 1931-1939 ; SEXUAL POLITICS ; 14. Women and Social Change ; 15. Beyond Tradition and 'Modernity': The Cultural and Sexual Politics of Spanish Anarchism ; INTELLECTUALS AND POWER ; 16. Reform Idealized: The Intellectual and Ideological Origins of the Second Republic ; 17. The Republican State and Mass Educational-Cultural Initiatives, 1931-1936 ; MONOLITHICITY VERSUS PLURALISM: POLITICAL DEBATES ; 18. The Political Debate within Catholicism ; 19. Catalan Nationalism: Cultural Plurality and Political Ambiguity ; THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE CIVIL WAR ; 20. The Republican and Nationalist Wartime Cultural Apparatus ; 21. Propaganda Art: Culture and the People or For the People? ; III: AUTHORITARIAN MODERNIZATION, 1940-1975 ; i Building the State and the Practice of Power, 1940-1959 ; THE MATERIAL REALITY OF STATE POWER ; 22. 'Terror and Progress': Industrialization, Modernity, and the Making of Francoism ; 23. Gender and the State: Women in the '40s ; CULTURAL CONTROL ; 24. Education and Political Control ; 25. The Moving Image of the Franco Regime: Noticiaros y Documentales 1943-1975 ; 26. The Ideology and Practice of Sport ; 27. Censorship or the Fear of Mass Culture ; CULTURAL NATIONALISM ; 28. Cifesa: Cinema and Authoritarian Aesthetics ; 29. Constructing the Nation: Francoist Architecture ; 30. Music and the Limits of Cultural Nationalism ; RESISTING THE STATE ; 31. The Urban and Rural Guerrilla of the '40s ; 32. Popular Culture in the 'Years of Hunger' ; 33. The Emergence of a Dissident Intelligentsia ; ii Developmentalism, Mass Culture, and Consumerism, 1960-1975 ; ADAPTING TO SOCIAL CHANGE ; 34. Social and Economic Change in a Climate of Political Immobilism ; 35. Educational Policy in a Changing Society ; 36. Catholicism and Social Change ; OPPOSITION CULTURE ; 37. The Left and the Legacy of Francoism: Political Culture in Opposition and Transition ; 38. The Politics of Popular Music: On the Dynamics of New Song ; ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION ; 39. Literary Experiment and Cultural Cannibalization ; 40. Painting and Sculpture: The Rejection of High Art ; 41. Cimema, Memory, and the Unconscious ; IV: DEMOCRACY AND EUROPEANIZATION: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 1975-1992 ; DEMOCRACY AND CULTURAL CHANGE ; 42. Political Transition and Cultural Democracy: Coping with the Speed of Change ; 43. Educational Policy in Democratic Spain ; 44. Back to the Future: Cinema and Democracy ; REGIONAL AUTONOMY AND CULTURAL POLICY ; 45. Some Perspectives on the Nation State and Autonomies in Spain ; 46. The Politics of Language: Spain's Minority Languages ; 47. Becoming Normal: Cultural Production and Cultural Policy in Catalonia ; 48. Negotiating Galician Cultural Identity ; 49. The Promotion of Cultural Production in Basque ; THE STATE, ENTERPRISE CULTURE, AND THE ARTS ; 50. The Mass Media: A Problematic Modernization ; 51. Redefining the Public Interest: Television in Spain Today ; 52. The Film Industry: Under Pressure from the State and Television ; 53. Artistic Patronage and Enterprise Culture ; 54. Designer Culture in the '80s: The Price of Success ; GENDER AND SEXUALITY ; 55. The Silent Revolution: The Social and Cultural Advances of Women in Democratic Spain ; 56. Work, Women, and the Family: A Critical Perspective ; 57. Gay and Lesbian Culture ; CONCLUSION: MODERNITY AND CULTURAL PLURALISM ; 58. Postmodernism and the Problem of Cultural Identity ; 59. The Politics of 1992