Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre

Jay Beck is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. Vicente Rodríguez Ortega teaches at the Jacob Burns Film Center and he is Adjunct Faculty at New York University and Brooklyn College

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsForeword - Robert SklarIntroduction - Jay Beck and Vicente Rodríguez OrtegaSection I - Industry, marketing and film culture1. The fantastic factory: the horror genre and contemporary Spanish cinema - Andrew Willis2. Trailing the Spanish auteur: Amenábar, Almodóvar & de la Iglesia’s generic routes in the US market - Vicente Rodríguez Ortega3. ‘Now playing everywhere’: Spanish horror film in the marketplace - Antonio Lázaro-RebollSection II - Generic hybridity: negotiating the regional, the national and the transnational4. From Sevilla to the world: the transnational and transgeneric initiative of La Zanfoña Producciones - Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labanyen5. *Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad*: Spanishness, dark comedy and horror - Juan F. Egea6. Tracing the past, dealing with the present: notes on the political thriller in contemporary Spanish cinema - Vicente J. Benet7. Selling out Spain: screening capital and culture in *Airbag* and *Smoking Room* - William NicholsSection III - Genre & authorship8. The transvestite figure and film noir: Pedro Almodóvar’s transnational imaginary - Carla Marcantonio9. Caressing the text: episodic erotics and generic structures in Ventura Pons’s ‘Minimalist Trilogy’ - David Scott Diffrient10. Horror of allegory: *The Others* and its contexts - Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz11. Love, loneliness and laundromats: affect and artifice in the cinema of Isabel Coixet - Belén VidalSection IV - Multilingual imaginaries, borderless Spain12. Dancing with ‘Spanishness’: Hollywood codes and the site of memory in the contemporary film musical - Pietsie Feenstra13. Immigration films: communicating conventions of (in)visibility in contemporary Spain - Maria Van Liew14. Spanish-Cuban co-productions: tourism, transnational romance and anxieties of authenticity - Mariana JohnsonIndex