A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction - Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlović
• Part I Reframing the National
• 2 Transnational Frameworks - Gerard Dapena, Marvin D'Lugo, and Alberto Elena
• 3 Echoes and Traces: Catalan Cinema, or Cinema in Catalonia - Brad Epps
• 4 Negotiating the Local and the Global: Andalusia, the Basque Country, and Galicia - José Colmeiro and Joseba Gabilondo
• Part II The Construction of the Auteur
• 5 Auteurism and the Construction of the Canon 113 - Marvin D'Lugo and Paul Julian Smith
• 6 Strategic Auteurism - Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, Steven Marsh, Susan Martin-Márquez, and Santos Zunzunegui
• Part III Genre
• 7 Comedy and Musicals - Steven Marsh, Chris Perriam, Eva Woods Peiró, and Santos Zunzunegui
• 8 Melodrama and Historical Film - Jo Labanyi, Annabel Martín, and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
• 9 Film Noir, the Thriller, and Horror -Jo Labanyi, Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
• Part IV Stars as Cultural Icons
• 10 The Construction of the Star System - Kathleen M. Vernon and Eva Woods Peiró
• 11 Stars, Modernity, and Celebrity Culture - Tatjana Pavlović, Chris Perriam, and Nuria Triana Toribio
• Part V Image and Sound
• 12 Photography, Production Design, and Editing Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
• 13 Soundtrack - Román Gubern and Kathleen M. Vernon
• Part VI The Film Apparatus: Production, Infrastructure, and Audiences
• 14 Censorship, Film Studios, and Production Companies - Josetxo Cerdán, Román Gubern, Jo Labanyi, Steven Marsh, Tatjana Pavlović, and Nuria Triana Toribio
• 15 Film Clubs, Festivals, Archives, and Magazines - Ferran Alberich, Román Gubern, and Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
• 16 Audiences - Manuel Palacio and Kathleen M. Vernon
• Part VII Relations with Other Media
• 17 Cinema, Popular Entertainment, Literature, and Television - Sally Faulkner, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, and Paul Julian Smith
• Part VIII Beyond the Fiction Film
• 18 Newsreels, Documentary, Experimental Film, Shorts, and Animation - Josetxo Cerdán and Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
• Part IX Reading Films through Theory
• 19 Isabel Coixet'sw Engagement with Feminist Film Theory: From G (the Gaze) to H (the Haptic) - Susan Martin-Márquez
• 20 Becoming a Queer (M)Other in/and/through Film: Transsexuality, Trans-subjectivity, and Maternal Relationality in Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre - Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla
• 21 The Space of the Vampire: Materiality and Disappearance in the Films of Iván Zulueta - Brad Epps