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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265239103321

Autore

Davies Ann <1961->

Titolo

Spanish spaces : landscape, space and place in contemporary Spanish culture / / Ann Davies [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-78138-796-6

1-84631-775-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; ; 6

Disciplina

946.083

Soggetti

Cultural geography - Spain

Cultural landscapes - Spain

Motion pictures - Spain - 20th century - History and criticism

Landscapes in motion pictures

Landscapes in literature

Spain Social life and customs 21st century

Spain Civilization 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Memory : landscapes of the past in Guillermo del Toro's Spanish films -- Forgetting : the landscapes of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester -- Landscape and identities in the Basque country -- Crime scene : landscape and the law of the land -- Crime, scene, investigation : women, detection and the city -- Coasting : tourism and landscape -- Immigration : north (of) Africa -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain’s varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack



of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space and place. Spanish Spaces consists of thematic case studies (memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration as negotiated through cultural texts), selected for their currency and their links to each other and drawing on the explorations of these themes in contemporary Spanish film and literature. Throughout the chapters the author investigates what it means to think of space and place in specifically Spanish terms.