Spanish Screen Fiction
Between Cinema and Television
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
This pioneering volume argues that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for the screen fiction that has come to dominate the twenty-first century. Offering comparative readings of films such as Pedro Almodóvar’s classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown with his production company’s first foray into television production—a 2006 series called Women—alongside prize-winning workplace dramas watched by thousands on Spanish television, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea Inside, and the attempts to establish the dominant Latin American genre of the telenovela in the very different context of Spanish television.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Between Cinema and Television
1 City Girls I: Almodóvar’s Women on Film and Television
2 City Girls II: Television’s Urban Women, Pre- and Post-Almodóvar
3 Crime Scenes: Police Drama on Television
4 Dramatic Professions: Workplace Fiction on Television
5 Two Suicides and a Funeral: The Euthanasia Debate on Film and Television
6 Transnational Telenovela: From Mexico to Madrid, via Barcelona
7 Auteur TV: Case Studies in Creativity
8 Sitcom Cinema: Case Studies in Convergence
Index
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