Contemporary Spanish Gothic

AvAnn Davies

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Examines Spain's contribution to international interest in Gothic culture, film and literatureWith the success of novels such as 'The Shadow of the Wind' and films like 'The Others', contemporary Spanish culture has contributed a great deal to the imagery and experience of the Gothic, although such contributions are not always recognised as being specifically Spanish in origin. 'Contemporary Spanish Gothic' is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely. Examining the works of writers and filmmakers like Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Pedro Almodovar and Alejandro Amenabar, as well as the further reaches of Spanish Gothic influence in the 'Twilight' film series, the book considers images and themes like the mad surgeon and the vulnerable body, the role of the haunted house, and the heritage biopics of Francisco de Goya.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-02-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt:329 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474431934

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Professor Ann Davies is Chair of Spanish at the University of Stirling. She has written various articles on contemporary Spanish cinema, and the work of Guillermo del Toro.

Recensioner i media

This monograph covers some key areas of Gothic Studies relevant to Spanish cultural production, offering valuable close readings of the individual texts selected, but more importantly, it makes a powerful case for the conclusion, shared wholeheartedly by the present reviewer, that Spanish culture ‘functions as a Gothic nexus’, a meeting-point of the culturally specific and the transnational, creating ‘complex patterns’ that we should take as an invitation ‘to step outside rigid disciplinary boundaries and explore the lines that cut across our own'.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements1: Introduction2: Heritage Gothic: Goya Biopics3: The Gothic Bestseller: the Circulation of Excess4: The Gothic House: Problematising the National Space5: The Gothic Camera: Javier Aguirresarobe at Home and in Hollywood6: Gothic Medicine: Written on the Body7: ConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex