Spanish visual culture

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 period drama, investigating the politics of affect in TV drama over the last decade.

The next pair of chapters deals with location. They utilise cultural geography to re-read contradictory accounts of the movida (the post-Franco cultural boom) and examine an attempt to anchor a US-derived genre (the youth movie) in the urban landscape of Madrid.

The fifth and sixth chapters introduce the theme of location into nostalgia. They address the unique cases of a successful Spanish heritage movie and a contemporary Spanish thriller remade in Hollywood.

The penultimate chapter investigates electronic artists and the virtual universe, culminating in a look at the implications of Hispano-Mexican co-productions and the interconnectedness of economic and aesthetic cultural forms.