Global genres, local films : the transnational dimension of Spanish cinema / edited by Elena Oliete-Aldea, Beatriz Oria, and Juan A. Taranc�on.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: questions of transnationalism and genre / Elena Oliete-Aldea, Beatriz Oria and Juan A. Taranc�on -- Rethinking Spanishness: the soft edges of early cinema. The tuneful 1930s: Spanish musicals in a global context -- Valeria Camporesi -- Historical films during the first years of the Franco regime and their transnational models / Vicente Jose Benet -- Realism, social conflict and the rise of crime cinema in Francoist Spain / Juan Taranc�on -- Luis Lucia's Lola la piconera (1951): hybridity, politics, entertainment / Federico Bonaddio -- Nothing ever happens: Juan Antonio Bardem and the resignification of Hollywood melodrama (1954-1963) / Daniel Mourenza -- Broadening perspectives: crossing borders, crossing genres. Carlos Saura's Stress es tres, tres (1968): a new spanish cinema with French and American influences? / Arnaud Duprat de Montero -- Violence, style and politics: the influence of the giallo in Spanish cinema of the 1970s / Andy Willis -- Spanish gothic cinema: the hidden continuities of a hidden genre / Ann Davies -- Reframing empire: mediating encounters and resistance in Spanish transatlantic cinema since 1992 / Noelia Saenz -- The transnational dimension of contemporary Spanish road movies / Carmen Indurain Eraso -- Rural Spain as a transnational space for reflection in Ic�iar Bolla�in's Flores de otro mundo / Chantal Cornut-Gentille d'Arcy -- Appropriating the global: self-conscious transnationalism. Isn't it bromantic?: new directions in contemporary Spanish comedy / Beatriz Oria -- Malamadres and Bertomeus: transnational crime film and television / Luis M. Garc�ia-Mainar -- Local responses to universal sufferings in Isabel Coixet's transnational melodramas / Hilaria Loyo -- Transnational contours and representation models in recent films about immigration in Spain. Alberto Elena and Ana Mart�in Mor�an -- Transnational identities in Galician documentary film: Alberte Pag�an's BS. as. (2006) and Xurxo Chirro's Vikingland / Iv�an villarmea Alvarez -- (In)visible co-productions, Spanish cinema, the market and the media / Vicente Rodr�iguez Ortega.

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