Refiguring Spain: cinema, media, representation

In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues of historical recuperation, gender and sexuality, and the marketing of Spain's peaceful political transformation, the contributors demonstrate that Spanish cinema and other forms of Spanish media culture created new national stereotypes and strengthened the nation's place in the global market and on the global stage.

Reading Hollywood in/and Spanish cinema: from trade wars to transculturation / Kathleen M. Vernon -- Documenting the national and its subversion in a democratic Spain / Marsha Kinder -- The marketing of Cervantine magic for a new global image of Spain / Dona M. Kercher -- Nations, nationalisms, and Los últimos de Filipinas: an imperialist desire for colonialist nostalgia / Ronald B. Tolentino -- Out of the cinematic closet: homosexuality in the films of Eloy de la Iglesia / Stephen Tropiano -- Pornography, masculinity, homosexuality: Almodóvar's Matador and La ley del deseo / Paul Julian Smith -- La teta i la lluna: the form of transnational cinema in Spain / Marvin D'Lugo -- Regendering Spain's political bodies: nationality and gender in the films of Pilar Miró and Arantxa Lazcano / Jaume Martí Olivella -- The financial structure of Spanish cinema / Peter Besas -- Spatial eruptions, global grids: regionalist TV in Spain and dialectics of identity politics / Richard Maxwell -- Private commercial television versus political diversity: the case of Spain's 1993 general election / Iñaki Zabaleta -- The art museum as a means of refiguring regional identity in democratic Spain / Selma R…