Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre Book

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