Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film

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 Alvarez



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 Rodriguez- Martin



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 Manton de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)



Juli Highfill



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



Patricia Keller







PART 4: THE EVERYDAY



8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film



Josefina Gonzalez Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas



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



Emeterio Diez Puertas and Maria de Arana Aroca







PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL



10. Who and What Was Jose 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 Sanchez- Biosca



12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodovar'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

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• Arquitectura
• Teoria e crítica de filmes
• Filmes, cinema
• Documentários
• Comunidades urbanas

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