A Companion to Spanish Cinema -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Reframing the National -- 2 Transnational Frameworks -- Introduction (Marvin D'Lugo and Gerard Dapena) -- Transnational Beginnings (Gerard Dapena) -- Breaking the Sound Barrier (Gerard Dapena) -- War, Isolation, and New Transnational Openings (Gerard Dapena) -- The Golden Age of Popular Coproductions (Gerard Dapena) -- The Politics of the Transnational Auteur (Marvin D'Lugo) -- The Producer-Author as Transnational Entrepreneur (Marvin D'Lugo) -- The Latin American Connection (Alberto Elena) -- Cinematic Relations with the Arab World (Alberto Elena) -- Spanish Cinema by Immigrant Directors (Alberto Elena) -- References -- Further Reading -- 3 Echoes and Traces: Catalan Cinema, or Cinema in Catalonia -- Other Voices, Other Scripts: Language, Imagery, and Censorship -- Spectacular (Dis)locations: Art, Business, and Morality -- Troubled Transitions: The "Talkies," the Republic, the Civil War, the Dictatorship, and Beyond -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 4 Negotiating the Local and the Global: Andalusia, the Basque Country, and Galicia -- Introduction: Fragmentation, Invisibility, and Political Devolution (José Colmeiro) -- On the Global Formation of Andalusian and Basque Cinemas (Joseba Gabilondo) -- Galician Cinema: Making the Invisible Visible (José Colmeiro) -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II The Construction of the Auteur -- 5 Auteurism and the Construction of the Canon -- Auteurism and Spain (Marvin D'Lugo) -- Luis Buñuel (Marvin D'Lugo) -- Carlos Saura (Marvin D'Lugo) -- Pedro Almodóvar (Paul Julian Smith) -- Víctor Erice (Paul Julian Smith) -- Julio Medem (Paul Julian Smith) -- Alejandro Amenábar (Paul Julian Smith) -- References -- Further Reading -- 6 Strategic Auteurism.

Introduction (Susan Martin-Márquez) -- Neville, Berlanga, and de la Iglesia: A Strategically Disruptive Auteurism (Steven Marsh) -- Authorizing Screenwriting: Rafael Azcona and Pedro Beltrán (Santos Zunzunegui) -- Jesús Franco: From Pulp Auteur to Cult Auteur (Antonio Lázaro-Reboll) -- Pere Portabella: The Politics and Aesthetics of Auteurism (Santos Zunzunegui) -- Editing in the Woman Auteur (Susan Martin-Márquez) -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part III Genre -- 7 Comedy and Musicals -- Comedy in Spanish Cinema: An Overview (Steven Marsh) -- Queridos cómicos: Actors and Entertainment (Santos Zunzunegui) -- The Heyday of the Musical Film (Eva Woods Peiró) -- Contemporary Musical Comedy, Sex, and Gender (Chris Perriam) -- Conclusion (Chris Perriam) -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 8 Melodrama and Historical Film -- Melodrama: Modernity's Rebellious Genre (Annabel Martín) -- The Historical Film: Genre and Legibility (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega) -- The Ambivalent Attractions of the Past: Historical Film of the Early Franco Period (Jo Labanyi) -- Between the National and the Global: The Historical Film from the 1960s to the Present (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega) -- References -- Further Reading -- 9 Film Noir, the Thriller, and Horror -- Introduction (Antonio Lázaro-Reboll) -- Film Noir (Jo Labanyi and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega) -- The Thriller (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega) -- The Horror Genre (Antonio Lázaro-Reboll) -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IV Stars as Cultural Icons -- 10 The Construction of the Star System -- The 1920s and 1930s -- The 1940s and 1950s -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 11 Stars, Modernity, and Celebrity Culture -- Introduction (Chris Perriam) -- Child Stars: Pablito Calvo, Joselito, Marisol, Pili and Mili, Rocío Dúrcal (Tatjana Pavlović).

The Politics of Stardom and Celebrity (Chris Perriam and Nuria Triana Toribio) -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part V Image and Sound -- 12 Photography, Production Design, and Editing -- An Anomalous Cinema? -- A Cinema of Attractions -- Dialectics of the Avant-Garde -- Two Iconographies of the Popular -- From Propaganda Documentary to Plush Interiors -- Claustrophic Lighting -- Sets for a Cardboard Version of History -- Openings to Modernity: Realism and Editing -- Choreography and Musical Design: Something Different -- Holding the Image: The Aesthetics of the Static Shot -- A New Experimental Avant-Garde -- From Eccentricity to Designer Look -- Stylistic Diversification -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- 13 Soundtrack -- Introduction (Kathleen M. Vernon) -- The Transition from Silent to Sound Cinema (Román Gubern) -- Listening to Spanish Cinema (Kathleen M. Vernon) -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VI The Film Apparatus: Production, Infrastructure, and Audiences -- 14 Censorship, Film Studios, and Production Companies -- Film Censorship (Román Gubern) -- Film Studios (Román Gubern) -- Filmófono (Steven Marsh) -- CIFESA (Jo Labanyi) -- Cesáreo González and Suevia Films (Josetxo Cerdán) -- Telecinco Cinema and El Deseo (Nuria Triana Toribio) -- Producciones La Iguana, Lamia Producciones, and Miss Wasabi Films (Tatjana Pavlović) -- References -- Further Reading -- 15 Film Clubs, Festivals, Archives, and Magazines -- Film Clubs (Román Gubern) -- Film Festivals (Román Gubern) -- Film Archives (Román Gubern) -- Film Preservation and Restoration (Ferran Alberich) -- Film Magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s (Román Gubern) -- Academic Film Journals since the 1980s (Vicente Sánchez-Biosca) -- References -- Further Reading -- 16 Audiences -- Introduction: Audiences and Audience Research (Kathleen M. Vernon).

From Patterns to Passion: Cinema-Going Prior to the 1960s (Kathleen M. Vernon) -- Spanish Cinema Audiences from the mid-1960s to the Present (Manuel Palacio) -- The Future of Film Audiences (Kathleen M. Vernon) -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VII Relations with Other Media -- 17 Cinema, Popular Entertainment, Literature, and Television -- Cinema and Other Forms of Entertainment Prior to the Arrival of Television (Vicente Sánchez-Biosca) -- Literary Adaptations (Sally Faulkner) -- Film and Television (Paul Julian Smith) -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VIII Beyond the Fiction Film -- 18 Newsreels, Documentary, Experimental Film, Shorts, and Animation -- Introduction (Josetxo Cerdán) -- Non-Fiction Film during the Civil War (Vicente Sánchez-Biosca) -- NO-DO: The Francoist Newsreel (Vicente Sánchez-Biosca) -- Shorts, Documentary, Experimental Film, and Animation in Transhistorical Perspective (Josetxo Cerdán) -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IX Reading Films through Theory -- 19 Isabel Coixet's Engagement with Feminist Film Theory: From G (the Gaze) to H (the Haptic) -- Gaze Theory and Mira y verás -- Melodrama, the Woman's Film, and My Life without Me -- From Body Genres to the Haptic -- The Haptic and My Life without Me -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 20 Becoming a Queer (M)Other in/and/through Film: Transsexuality, Trans-subjectivity, and Maternal Relationality in Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre -- Introduction -- Acting and Re-enacting the Loss of the Child -- Transsexuality -- Trans-subjectivity -- Maternal Relationality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 21 The Space of the Vampire: Materiality and Disappearance in the Films of Iván Zulueta -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Index.