The Moderns
Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 March 2000
- ISBN 9780198160014
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages218 pages
- Size 216x138x18 mm
- Weight 351 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp black and white plates 0
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Short description:
This book offers a radically new account of the rich and varied culture of contemporary Spain. It focuses on three intellectuals who chronicle contemporary life (including journalist Francisco Umbral); three filmmakers who engage with the many nationalisms of the Spanish state (Victor Erice, Bigas Luna, and Julio Medem); and three crucial topics that are expressed in many media (the replaying of history, the rise and fall of the city, and the practice of everyday life).
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This book offers a radically new account of the rich and varied culture of contemporary Spain. It focuses on three intellectuals who chronicle contemporary life (including journalist Francisco Umbral); three filmmakers who engage with the many nationalisms of the Spanish state (Victor Erice, Bigas Luna, and Julio Medem); and three crucial topics that are expressed in many media (the replaying of history, the rise and fall of the city, and the practice of everyday life). Ranging from the ethnographic photography of Cristina García Rodero to the high tech architecture of Santiago Calatrava and from the hyperrealist painting of Antonio López to the neo-flamenco dance of Joaquín Cortés, this book is also the first to draw on theorists of the intellectual field, the production of space, and the arts of bricolage (Pierre Bourdieu, Henri Lefebvre, and Michel de Certeau). Refuting the charge that contemporary Spanish culture is trivial or superficial, this book argues that it is fully engaged in the aesthetic and historical project of modernity.
... a sophisticated and thought-provoking account of the struggle for modernity in contemporary Spanish culture ... The Moderns is a book to be read and discussed. Its impressive range of treatments of important cultural texts and authors enriches our general understanding of Spanish culture as it challenges our thinking about the locations and practices of cultural modernization.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Time, Space, Subjectivity
I. Time
Modern Times: Francisco Umbral's Chronicle of Distinction
Between Metaphysics and Scientism: Rehistoricizing Víctor Erice
Cross-Cut: Replay
II. Space
Social Space and Symbolic Power: Fernando Savater's Intellectual Field
Between Land and Language: Locating Bigas Luna
Cross-Cut: City
III. Subjectivity
Back to Front: Alberto Cardín's Queer Habitus
Between Heaven and Earth: Grounding Julio Medem
Cross-Cut: Gypsy
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
