Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies

Description: 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.

Review: 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. The British Bulletin of Publications on Latin Amer

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.



Author Biography: Barry Jordan is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Head of Spanish at De Montfort University, Leicester. Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas is Dean of Languages and Social Sciences at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, England.