Product Description: The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939—a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco’s rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international exhibitions...read more

Product Description: 'I, Salvador Dalí, come from Spain, which is the most irrational and most mystical country in the world.' Dali's implicit suggestion that Spaniards make good surrealists is fully borne out by Robert Havard'sCompanion. Chapters consider major figures such as García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, LuisCernuda, Joan Miró and Gómez de la Serna; other less mainstream figuresare gathered into surveys of work in particular genres...read more

Product Description: Modern Spanish culture is bold and experimental, expressing a disregard for generic boundaries and formal conventions. In these essays, leading Hispanists explore the dialogue and interrelation between cultural discourses and artistic practices in a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from the perspectives of literary criticism, cultural analysis, media studies, politics and the history of art...read more

Product Description: This accessible introduction to the exciting field of contemporary Spanish visual culture is the first of its kind. It combines cultural context with close readings of particular works.Going beyond the field of cinema, in which Spain is an acknowledged leader, Smith examines new developments in television, where original and innovative series drama has recently blossomed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.Focusing on Spanish culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies traverses a variety of disciplines: literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, to examine crucial moments of cultural transition...read more

Product Description: Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain examines the development of the feminine cultural tradition in spain and how this tradition reshaped and defined a Spanish national identity. Each chapter focuses on representation of autobiography, alienation and exile, marginality, race, eroticism, political activism, and feminism within the ever-changing nationalisms in different regions of Spain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of European explorers to the Reagan administration

This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts analyze the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country, and the country's literature. There are studies of painting, sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading assist in making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain. (view table of contents)