Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge

• Introduction: Three media, three themes1 The emotional imperative: Almodóvar’s Hable con ella (Talk to Her) and Televisión Española’s Cuéntame cómo pasó (“Tell Me How It Happened”)2 Family plots: The politics of affect in television drama of the millennium3 The movida relocated: press, chronicle, novel4 Towards the Spanish youthmovie: Historias del Kronen5 Spanish heritage, spanish cinema: The strange case of Juana la Loca 6 High anxiety: Amenábar’s Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruise’s Vanilla Sky7 Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art 8 Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films

Paul Julian Smith is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge

• Introduction: Three media, three themes1 The emotional imperative: Almodóvar’s Hable con ella (Talk to Her) and Televisión Española’s Cuéntame cómo pasó (“Tell Me How It Happened”)2 Family plots: The politics of affect in television drama of the millennium3 The movida relocated: press, chronicle, novel4 Towards the Spanish youthmovie: Historias del Kronen5 Spanish heritage, spanish cinema: The strange case of Juana la Loca 6 High anxiety: Amenábar’s Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)/Crowe and Cruise’s Vanilla Sky7 Virtual Spain: Manuel Castells and Spanish web art 8 Transatlantic traffic in recent Hispano-Mexican films