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Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies

Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies

Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies


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Spanish studies is changing under the influence of cultural theory, which challenges accepted ideas of high, mass and popular culture. This text offers approaches, types of work and source materials, starting with the contradictory process of economic modernization beginning in the 1960s.

Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies Summary

Spanish studies is changing dramatically under the influence of cultural theory, which challenges accepted ideas of high, mass and popular culture. This stimulating book offers a new interdisciplinary approach to contemporary Spanish culture and society, taking as its starting point the contradictory process of economic modernisation beginning in the 1960s. Written by a group of leading scholars, it provides readers with a crucial gateway to the key debates and issues involved in contemporary Spanish cultural forms, exploring topics ranging from race, nationalism and identity, to the media, gender and sex, religion, sport, and shopping. Students and scholars alike will find this an essential source book and guide to contemporary Spain and its diverse cultures.

Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies Reviews

This reader is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the scholarly explorations currently underway on topics as diverse as Spanish football, feminism, nationalism, television news, history and film.
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Table of Contents

Part 1 - Redefining national identities
Cultural and development: the impact of 1960s 'desarrollismo'
Selling Spanish 'otherness' since the 1960s
Collective memory, the nation-state and Post-Franco society
Race, immigration and multiculturalism in Spain
1992 memories and modernities
How Spanish is it? Spanish cinema and national identity
Part 2 - Negotiating the past
Heritage devolution and the recovery of diversity
Cultural memory, commerce and the arts: the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM)
Postmodernism and the contemporary avant-garde
Screening the past: history and nostalgia in contemporary Spanish cinema
Sects and secularity: another cinema, another Spain
Spectacle, trauma and violence in contemporary Spain
Part 3 - Media, regulation, politics, meanings
Public accountability and private interests: regulation and the flexible media regime in Spain
Politics and television news in Spain
New media technologies in Spain: a healthy pluralism?
The Spanish film industry in the 1980 and 1990s
Marketing with local culture in Spain: selling the transnational way
Part 4 - Other voices
Gendered images: constructions of masculinity and femininity in television advertising
Representing alternative sexualities in contemporary Spanish writing and film
Changing subjects: gendered identities in ETA and radical Basque Nationalism
Re-registering feminisms
Laws of silence: homosexual identity and visibility in contemporary Spanish cu
Leisure and consumption: the highs and lows of shopping: From street markets to hypermarkets.

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GOR003136059
9780340731222
0340731222
Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies by
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20000301
366
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