Paul Julian Smith

Spanish Visual Culture is the first book to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television, and the internet. It examines cultural products in each of these media through three vital themes: emotion, location, and nostalgia. The first two chapters focus on emotion. They analyse the 'emotional imperative' in a recent Almodóvar feature film and in Spanish television's top-rated...

Y Tu Mamá También (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time....

This book analyses, for the first time, innovative Mexican television drama of the current decade. It provides an account of the processes of production and reception for seven series, offering close textual readings of individual episodes. At this critical time for the medium, the transition between national network television (Televisa) and transnational streaming platforms (Netflix and Amazon Prime), Mexican creators,...