Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2021 | New edition
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-489-5 (ISBN)

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An international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars examine the relationship between filmmaking – the seventh art – and the built environment. Contributions from scholars in the fields of film, architecture and urban studies. 82 b/w photographs

This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will examine Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age.

Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together the innovative scholarship of an international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars thinking through the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. Some of the shared concerns that emerge from this volume include the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited since the early twentieth century; the question of the mobile gaze; film's role in the shifting relationship between the private and the public; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; the impact of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship.

Primary readership will be those researching, teaching and studying Spanish film, international film studies, urban cultural studies, cultural studies, and architects who are interested in interdisciplinary endeavours.

Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Professor of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University, the editor of Romance Quarterly, and the author of Constructing and Resisting Modernity: Madrid 1900–1936.

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies

Susan Larson

PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN

1.Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- AnalyticDocumentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez

Benjamin Fraser

2.Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films

Jorge Gorostiza

PART 2: MOBILITY

3.The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936

Nuria Rodríguez- Martín

4.Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: LuisLucia’s Cerca de la ciudad (1952)

David Foshee

Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film

Tom Whittaker

PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS

6. An Archi- Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)

Juli Highfill

7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s El verdugo (1963)

Patricia Keller

PART 4: THE EVERYDAY

8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film

Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas

9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema

Emeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca

PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL

10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)?

Susan Larson and Carlos Sambricio

11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’

Vicente Sánchez- Biosca

12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- movida Films

Samuel Amago

PART 6: THE VIRTUAL

13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s 10.000km and Anchor and Hope

Leigh Mercer

14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban

Stephen Luis Vilaseca

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.07.2021
Zusatzinfo	80 Halftones, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-78938-489-3 / 1789384893
ISBN-13	978-1-78938-489-5 / 9781789384895
Zustand	Neuware