Acknowledgments
Contributors
Foreword - Robert Sklar
Introduction - Jay Beck and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Section I - Industry, marketing and film culture
1. The fantastic factory: the horror genre and contemporary Spanish
cinema - Andrew Willis
2. Trailing the Spanish auteur: Amenábar, Almodóvar & de la
Iglesia’s generic routes in the US market - Vicente Rodríguez
Ortega
3. ‘Now playing everywhere’: Spanish horror film in the marketplace
- Antonio Lázaro-Reboll
Section II - Generic hybridity: negotiating the regional, the
national and the transnational
4. From Sevilla to the world: the transnational and transgeneric
initiative of La Zanfoña Producciones - Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel
Fernández Labanyen
5. *Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad*: Spanishness, dark
comedy and horror - Juan F. Egea
6. Tracing the past, dealing with the present: notes on the
political thriller in contemporary Spanish cinema - Vicente J.
Benet
7. Selling out Spain: screening capital and culture in *Airbag* and
*Smoking Room* - William Nichols
Section III - Genre & authorship
8. The transvestite figure and film noir: Pedro Almodóvar’s
transnational imaginary - Carla Marcantonio
9. Caressing the text: episodic erotics and generic structures in
Ventura Pons’s ‘Minimalist Trilogy’ - David Scott Diffrient
10. Horror of allegory: *The Others* and its contexts - Ernesto R.
Acevedo-Muñoz
11. Love, loneliness and laundromats: affect and artifice in the
cinema of Isabel Coixet - Belén Vidal
Section IV - Multilingual imaginaries, borderless Spain
12. Dancing with ‘Spanishness’: Hollywood codes and the site of
memory in the contemporary film musical - Pietsie Feenstra
13. Immigration films: communicating conventions of (in)visibility
in contemporary Spain - Maria Van Liew
14. Spanish-Cuban co-productions: tourism, transnational romance
and anxieties of authenticity - Mariana Johnson
Index
Jay Beck is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. Vicente Rodríguez Ortega teaches at the Jacob Burns Film Center and he is Adjunct Faculty at New York University and Brooklyn College
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