The Editors: Shelley Godsland is the Jubilee Research Fellow in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has a BA (Hons) from the University of Southampton, an M.A. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool (Institute of Latin American Studies). Anne M. White is lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford, and Director of the Department’s M.A. courses in Cultural Studies.

«This volume constitutes an important contribution to the study of Spanish and Latin-American popular culture, both in terms of theoretical concerns about the definition of popular culture itself and in terms of the insights it offers into a wide range of popular cultural phenomena.» (Bill Richardson, Bulletin of Spanish Studies)«The broad range of conference participants – from established academics to research postgraduate students – as well as subjects covered makes for a dynamic compilation that is interesting, accessible and topical.» (The British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain)

• Contents: Jo Labanyi: Matters of Taste: Working with Popular Culture – Jon Beasley-Murray: Towards an Unpopular Cultural Studies: The Perspective of the Multitude – Tita Beaven: The Transitory, the Fugitive, the Contingent: Cristina Terzaghi's Mural in La Boca, Buenos Aires – David Wood: Artesanía Peruana: A Study of the Production and Consumption of the Mate Burilado [Engraved Gourd] – Andrew Willis: Angustia and the Self-Reflexive Horror Film – Antonio Lázaro Reboll: Exploitation in the Cinema of Klimovsky and Franco – Catherine Leen: Three Border Films: El Mariachi, El Jardín del Edén and Lone Star – Ryan Prout: A Load of Bull: Cultural Patrimony, Machismo, and Merchandise – Jackie Cannon: National Identity in Advertising: The Use of Colours and Symbols – Jo Evans: La ardilla roja: The Compulsive Nostalgia of Popular Love Songs – Gladis García-Soza/Anne M. White: Spellbound: Resisting the Power of Popular Myth in Erice's El espíritu de la colmena – Shelley Godsland: Sun, Sex and Servitude: Francisco Umbral's View of Spanish Tourism Development in Las europeas – Susana Bayó Belenguer: Unpopular Culture: The Fairy Story and Carmen Martín Gaite's Caperucita en Manhattan – Vanessa Knights: Transgressive Pleasures: The Latin American Bolero – David Shea: Notes from a Car Park: Is there any Place for the Canción de Autor in Contemporary Spain? – Hugh O'Donnell: Recounting the Nation: The Domestic Catalan Telenovela – Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel: Television Viewers and the Telenovela: Establishing a Media Contract – Guillermo Olivera: ‘Populism’ and the Media Dimension of Latin American Politics (with Special Reference to Argentine Television in the 1990s).