PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN -- 1. Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic-Analytic Documentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) / by Mercedes Álvarez, Benjamin Fraser -- 2. Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films / Jorge Gorostiza -- PART 2: MOBILITY -- 3. The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film, 1896-1939 / Nuria Rodríguez-Martín -- 4. Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: Luis Lucia's Cerca de la ciudad (1952) / David Foshee -- 5. Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film / Tom Whittaker -- PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS -- 6. An Archi-Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927) / Juli Highfill -- 7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga's El verdugo (1963) / Patricia Keller -- PART 4: THE EVERYDAY -- 8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film / Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza-Arribas -- 9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema / Emeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca -- PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL -- 10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? / Susan Larson and Carlos Sambricio -- 11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the 'Details' / Vicente Sánchez-Biosca -- 12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar's Post-Movida Films / Samuel Amago -- PART 6: THE VIRTUAL -- 13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet's 10.000km and Anchor and Hope / Leigh Mercer -- 14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban / Stephen Luis Vilaseca.
Summary:
"The first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish film from 1896 to the present. Building on existing film and urban histories, this collection examines Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality, and mass culture from the industrial age to the digital present. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together innovative scholarship from an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture, and urban studies scholars as they explore the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. The contributors explore a wide range of topics, including the role of film in the shifting relationship between private and public; the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited; the question of the mobile gaze; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; and the effects of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship. This engaging collection will interest anyone researching, teaching, and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban, and cultural studies."--Publisher description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.