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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300028303321

Autore

Palardy Diana Q

Titolo

The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film / / by Diana Q. Palardy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-92885-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 235 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Hispanic Urban Studies, , 2662-5830

Disciplina

306.094

Soggetti

Ethnology—Europe

Motion pictures—European influences

Sociology, Urban

European literature

Motion pictures

European Culture

European Cinema and TV

Urban Studies/Sociology

European Literature

Close Reading

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The Path to Voluntary Confinement: Dystopian Spaces of Consumerism in Ray Loriga’s Tokio ya no nos quiere -- 3. Grafting the Global North onto the Global South: Dystopian Transhumanism in Elia Barceló’s “Mil euros por tu vida” -- 4. The Architecture of Avarice in Ion de Sosa’s Sueñan los androides or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Economic Crisis and Love the Sheep -- 5. Sensescapes of Precarity in El salario del gigante by José Ardillo, Madrid: frontera by David Llorente, and Nos mienten by Eduardo Vaquerizo -- 6. The Cartography of In/subordination in El sistema by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes



that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barceló, Ion de Sosa, José Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.