Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation
Book 1 of Palgrave Gothic
Language: English
Anthropology Cinematography & Videography Cultural & Social European Film General History & Criticism Literary Criticism Performing Arts Photography Social Science Techniques
Publisher: Springer
Published: Mar 16, 2017
Description:
This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent yet ever-shifting fixture of the literary and cinematic landscape of Spain since the late-eighteenth century. He proposes that writers and filmmakers alike welcomed the Gothic as a liberating and transgressive artistic language.