Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media
Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media

Author: Paul Julian Smith

Publisher: Visual Culture

Published: 2024-07-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781839540417

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This book offers a new perspective via visual culture of the reimagining of history for contemporary Spanish media audiences. It gives close readings of major recent texts in a number of media (theater, cinema, television, and streaming) which have yet to receive scholarly attention and are closely connected to each other. And it stresses the intermediality of the visual by calling attention to connections between those media and others such as painting. From Picasso to the Javis and from the classic serial to Netflix, this book shows how Spanish history is radically reimagined through recent visual culture. Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor in the Comparative Literature Program at the Graduate Center in City University of New York. A Fellow of the British Academy and the former Professor of Spanish in the University of Cambridge, he is the author of 24 books.

Crisis TV
Crisis TV

Author: María del Carmen Caña Jiménez

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1438499876

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Crisis TV addresses the motif of crisis that has come to dominate contemporary Hispanic televisual production since 2008 and the onset of the global financial crisis. In almost unprecedented fashion, the global economy came to a standstill, reshaping both geopolitical organizations and, more importantly, the lives of billions across the globe. The Great Recession, sociopolitical instabilities, the rise of extremist political parties and governments, and a worldwide pandemic have resulted in a mode of crisis that pervades contemporary television fiction. 2008 also marks a revolution in television, as local and global streaming services began to gain market share and even overtake traditional over-the-air transmission. The essays in Crisis TV identify and analyze the narrative tropes and aesthetic qualities of Hispanic television post-2008 to understand how different regions and genres have negotiated these intersecting crises and changing dynamics in production, dissemination, and consumption.

Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective
Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective

Author: Joyce M. Szabo

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0826364101

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Few contemporary artists before the 1990s explored the negative impact of the Spanish in the Southwest, but unreflective celebrations of the Columbus Quincentennial brought about portrayals of a more complicated legacy of Columbus’s arrival in the Americas—especially by Indigenous artists. Through a series of etchings, Floyd Solomon of Laguna and Zuni heritage undertook a visual recounting of Pueblo history using Indigenous knowledge positioned to reimagine a history that is known largely from non-Native records. While Solomon originally envisioned more than forty etchings, he ultimately completed just twenty. From nightmarish visions of the Spanish that preceded their arrival to the subsequent return of the Spanish and their continuing effects on the Pueblo people, Solomon provides a powerful visual record. These insightful, probing etchings are included in this important full-color volume showcasing Solomon’s work and legacy. In Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective, Joyce M. Szabo positions Solomon among his contemporaries, making this vibrant artist and his remarkable vision broadly available to audiences both familiar with his work and those seeing it for the first time.

The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing
The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing

Author: Jane Hanley

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 082650213X

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The long history of transatlantic movement in the Spanish-speaking world has had a significant impact on present-day concepts of Mexico and the implications of representing Mexico and Latin America more generally in Spain, Europe, and throughout the world. In addition to analyzing texts that have received little to no critical attention, this book examines the connections between contemporary travel, including the local dynamics of encounters and the global circulation of information, and the significant influence of the history of exchange between Spain and Mexico in the construction of existing ideas of place. To frame the analysis of contemporary travel writing, author Jane Hanley examines key moments in the history of Mexican-Spanish relations, including the origins of narratives regarding Spaniards' sense of Mexico's similarity to and difference from Spain. This history underpins the discussion of the role of Spanish travelers in their encounters with Mexican peoples and places and their reflection on their own role as communicators of cultural meaning and participants in the tourist economy with its impact—both negative and positive—on places.

Reimagining Communication: Meaning
Reimagining Communication: Meaning

Author: Michael Filimowicz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1351007904

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Reimagining Communication: Meaning surveys the foundational theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to shape communication studies, synthesizing the complex relationship of communication to meaning making in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. The Reimagining Communication series develops a new information architecture for the field of communications studies, grounded in its interdisciplinary origins and looking ahead to emerging trends as researchers take into account new media technologies and their impacts on society and culture. Reimagining Communication: Meaning brings together international authors to provide contemporary perspectives on semiotics, hermeneutics, paralanguage, corpus analysis, critical theory, intercultural communication, global culture, cultural hybridity, postcolonialism, feminism, political economy, propaganda, cultural capital, media literacy, media ecology and media psychology. The volume is designed as a reader for scholars and a textbook for students, offering a new approach for comprehending the vast diversity of communications topics in today’s globally networked world. This will be an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies.

Re-envisioning Jewish Identities
Re-envisioning Jewish Identities

Author: Efraim Sicher

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9004462252

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This innovative study combines readings of contemporary literature, art, and performance to explore the diverse and complex directions of contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the diaspora.

Spanish Lessons
Spanish Lessons

Author: Paul Julian Smith

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1785331086

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Introduction: film, television, transmedia -- Film. Spanish cinema of the 1980s -- Madrid de Cine: Spanish film screenings -- Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of post-auteurism -- Television. Media migration and cultural proximity: a specimen season of television drama -- LGBT TV Catalonia -- Televisual properties: the construction bubble in three TV series -- (Re)turn to transmedia. Towards transmedia: past and present of cinema and television in Spain -- A new paradigm for the Spanish audiovisual sector?: quality television/popular cinema -- Crisis fictions: novel, cinema, tv -- Conclusion: the audiovisual field in contemporary Spain

Modern Naval History
Modern Naval History

Author: Richard Harding

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1472579100

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Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance. Navies play an important role in the modern world, and the globalisation of economies, cultures and societies has placed a premium on maritime communications. Modern Naval History demonstrates the importance of naval history today, showing its relevance to a number of disciplines and its role in understanding how navies relate to their host societies. Richard Harding explains why naval history is still important, despite slipping from the attention of policy makers and the public since 1945, and how it can illuminate answers to questions relating to economic, diplomatic, political, social and cultural history. The book explores how naval history has informed these fields and how it can produce a richer and more informed historical understanding of navies and sea power.

Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium

Author: Ian Ellison

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3030954471

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This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.