Contemporary Spanish Gothic

Professor Ann Davies is Chair of Spanish at the University of Stirling. She has written various articles on contemporary Spanish cinema, and the work of Guillermo del Toro.

• Acknowledgements1: Introduction2: Heritage Gothic: Goya Biopics3: The Gothic Bestseller: the Circulation of Excess4: The Gothic House: Problematising the National Space5: The Gothic Camera: Javier Aguirresarobe at Home and in Hollywood6: Gothic Medicine: Written on the Body7: ConclusionFilmographyBibliographyIndex

This monograph covers some key areas of Gothic Studies relevant to Spanish cultural production, offering valuable close readings of the individual texts selected, but more importantly, it makes a powerful case for the conclusion, shared wholeheartedly by the present reviewer, that Spanish culture ‘functions as a Gothic nexus’, a meeting-point of the culturally specific and the transnational, creating ‘complex patterns’ that we should take as an invitation ‘to step outside rigid disciplinary boundaries and explore the lines that cut across our own'.