Juan F. Egea is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US. He is the author of La poesía del nosotros: Jaime Gil de Biedma y la secuencia lírica moderna and Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy, and the Nation.

• Introduction. 1. Hispanism and its Cinematic Discontents 2. Film, Art, Poetry: Spanish Cinema and the Place of Literature 3. Popular Film or Cinema as Bad Object 4. Genre and Nation 5. (Spanish) Transnational Cinema. Conclusion: Screenspanism?

Juan F. Egea is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US. He is the author of La poesía del nosotros: Jaime Gil de Biedma y la secuencia lírica moderna and Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy, and the Nation.

• Introduction. 1. Hispanism and its Cinematic Discontents 2. Film, Art, Poetry: Spanish Cinema and the Place of Literature 3. Popular Film or Cinema as Bad Object 4. Genre and Nation 5. (Spanish) Transnational Cinema. Conclusion: Screenspanism?

Juan F. Egea is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, US. He is the author of La poesía del nosotros: Jaime Gil de Biedma y la secuencia lírica moderna and Dark Laughter: Spanish Film, Comedy, and the Nation.

• Introduction. 1. Hispanism and its Cinematic Discontents 2. Film, Art, Poetry: Spanish Cinema and the Place of Literature 3. Popular Film or Cinema as Bad Object 4. Genre and Nation 5. (Spanish) Transnational Cinema. Conclusion: Screenspanism?