Spanish Film Cultures

Nuria Triana Toribio's thorough biopsy of the Spanish Film Academy provides a lucid diagnosis of the condition of contemporary Spanish cinema and will enable vivid, challenging debate. Fascinating and hugely informative, this bracing book treats Spanish film cultures, both flowering and festering, as integral to the idea of Spanish cinema and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand all the strategies that affect filmmaking in Spain.' - Rob Stone, Chair of European Film, University of Birmingham, UK 'Spanish Film Cultures is a rigorous, groundbreaking and excellently written study of how the Spanish Academia has shaped the idea of Spanish cinema.' - Dolores Tierney, Senior Lecturer in Film, University of Sussex, UK 'Spanish Film Cultures broadens and enriches current film studies about Spain. Instead of analyzing films as aesthetic objects or social tools of cultural production, Dr. Nuria Triana Toribio shows the ways that films fit into a larger sociopolitical landscape in the service of nationalism and cultural hegemony.' - N. Michelle Murray, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Vanderbilt University, USA

The past four decades have seen the Spanish film industry rise from isolation in the 1970s to international recognition within European and World Cinema today. Exploring the cultural and political imperatives that governed this success, this book shows how Spanish film culture was deliberately and strategically shaped into its current form.

The past four decades have seen the Spanish film industry rise from isolation in the 1970s to international recognition within European and World Cinema today. Exploring the cultural and political imperatives that governed this success, this book shows how Spanish film culture was deliberately and strategically shaped into its current f