George, Jr. / Tang / Jr. Televising Restoration Spain

History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-96196-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 269 Seiten, eBook

This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain (1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000. Contributors analyze, from different theoretical approaches and disciplinary perspectives, the appeal that the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hold for twenty-first-century Spanish audiences, as well as for international viewers who consume these programs through new media platforms. Themes and issues explored include: the production of televisual heritage, representations of period technologies, evolving constructions of gender, hybridization of television genres, and television as historian. Expanding the scope of inquiry in Spanish media studies, this collection seeks to bring Spain into wider discussions of media and historical representation and visual and material culture in Europe, the Americas, and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

George, Jr., David R.

Tang, Wan Sonya

Jr.,

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction (David R. George, Jr. and Wan Sonya Tang).- Part I. Producing Heritage.- 2. Fortunata’s Long Shadow: the Restoration as Televisual Heritage in
Acacias 38
and
El secreto de Puente Viejo
(David R. George, Jr.).- 3. Profane Unions: Constructing Heritage from Anarchist-Bourgeois Romances in
Ull per ull
and
Barcelona, ciutat neutral
(Elena Cueto Asín).- Part II. Imagining Technologies.- 4. New Technologies and Transmedia Storytelling in Víctor Ros: Captivating Audiences at the Turn of the Century (Mónica Barrientos-Bueno and Ángeles Martínez-García).- 5. From Photography to Forensics: Technology, Modernity, and the Internationalization of Spanish History in
Gran Hotel
(Wan Sonya Tang).- Part III. Constructing Genders.- 6. Dresses, Cassocks, and Coats: Costuming Restoration Gender Fantasies in
La Señora
(2008-2010) (Nicholas Wolters).- 7. “Las normas son para romperlas”: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen de Burgos, and the Unruly Women of
Seis hermanas
(Linda M. Willem).- Part IV. Restoring the
Telenovela
.- 8.
Bandolera
: Limits and Possibilities of Period
Telenovelas
(Francisca López).- 9. Creating Locally for a Global Audience:
Seis hermanas
and the Costume Serial Drama as Quality Television (Concepción Cascajosa Virino).- Part V. Sensing the Ending.- 10. Commercializing Nostalgia and Constructing Memory in
As leis de Celavella
(María Gil Poisa).- 11. “Felices años veinte”? Las chicas del cable and the Iconicity of 1920s Madrid (Leslie J. Harkema).- 12. The End of the Restoration: A Vision from the Early Second Republic in
14 de abril. La República
(Iván Gómez García).

Über Autor(innen)

David R. George, Jr.
is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Bates College, USA, focusing on nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish literature, film, and television. He is co-editor of
Historias de la pequeña pantalla. Representaciones históricas en la televisión de la España democrática
(2009), and author of annotated editions of texts by Leopoldo Alas and Benito Pérez Galdós.
Wan Sonya Tang
is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Boston College, USA.  Her research focuses on Spain’s modernization process in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the cultural anxieties generated therein, particularly with regards to gender and class dynamics.