Book Details
The book, which is of interest to both Hispanic and media studies, gives new readings of some well-known texts and discovers new or forgotten ones. For example it compares Almodovar's classic feature Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown') with his production company El Deseo's first venture into TV production, the 2006 series also known as Mujeres ('Women'). It also reclaims the lost history of female flat share comedy on Spanish TV from the 1960s to the present day.
It examines a wide range of prize winning workplace drama on TV, from police shows, to hospital and legal series. Amenabar's Mar adentro ('The Sea Inside') an Oscar-winning film on the theme of euthanasia, is contrasted with its antecedent, an episode of national network Tele5's top-rated drama Periodistas.The book also traces the attempt to establish a Latin American genre, the telenovela, in the very different context of Spanish scheduling. Finally it proposes two new terms: 'Auteur TV' charts the careers of creators who have established distinctive profiles in television over decades; 'sitcom cinema' charts, conversely, the incursion of television aesthetics and economics into the film comedies that have proved amongst the most popular features at the Spanish box office in the last decade.
'Smith is a passionate critic, an original and thorough cultural historian and a completely engaging writer (qualities that don't often come together). Readers of all stripes will come away richly rewarded by this book.' Professor Kathleen Vernon, SUNY Stony Brookáá
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Smith, Paul Julian
- ISBN13 9781846312021
- ISBN10 1846312027
- Pages 200
- Published 2009
- Language English
Spanish screen fiction between cinema and television
- Author Paul Julian Smith
- Publisher LIVERPOOL
- ISBN 9781846312021
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