{"title":"Hidden Secrets, Utopias, Ghosts and the Hispanic Periphery in Los abrazos rotos (2009): Pedro Almodóvar’s Homage to Lanzarote and César Manrique","authors":"Rhian Davies","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2021.1876381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1876381","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Taking as my starting point Almodóvar’s statement that Los abrazos rotos contains ‘una historia que subyace a todas las demás’ and building upon Javier Herrera’s attention to the ‘doubling’ within the film, together with María Delgado’s and Katarzyna Beilin’s claims that it can be linked to questions of historical memory, in this article I will examine in greater detail Almodóvar’s comments regarding the influence of Lanzarote and the prominent Lanzarotean artist/sculptor César Manrique on this film. After analysing the scenes that take place on the island and assessing their relevance to the film as a whole, I contend that Lanzarote is a prime force and, furthermore, that Los abrazos rotos contains strong links with the work, life and death of Manrique, whom Almodóvar met during his visit to the island in 1986. Finally, I propose that it is through exploring the significance of Lanzarote and Manrique in this complex, multi-layered film that we can fully appreciate Almodóvar’s engagement with contemporary Spanish issues in Los abrazos rotos and the way in which he uses the film to raise provocative questions about Spain’s present, past and future, the status and role of the Hispanic periphery and the construction of utopias.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"31 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2021.1876381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44974348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La obra fílmica de Lucrecia Martel, Paz Encina y Tatiana Huezo a la luz del actual cine poético latinoamericano: una superación del Tercer Cine","authors":"Júlia González De Canales Carcereny","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2021.1911468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1911468","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract El Tercer cine es mundialmente conocido como aquella tradición cinematográfica que, desde los años 50 pero especialmente en los 60 y 70, revolucionó el cine del continente latinoamericano con propuestas estéticas militantes y contra-normativas, opuestas a las tendencias dominantes en el cine comercial. A lo largo de estas décadas fue, sin embargo, transformándose y, al día de hoy, cabe comprenderlo en su vertiente de influencia estética en el actual cine poético latinoamericano. A sabiendas del desigual desarrollo de las corrientes refundadoras del cine latinoamericano en los distintos países, y asumiendo la inevitable perspectiva histórica que nos ofrece el momento actual, este artículo busca estudiar cómo el proyecto ideológico subalterno defendido por el Tercer Cine ha encontrado un heredero en las actuales propuestas fílmico-poéticas latinoamericanas. Para ello, el presente ensayo toma como material de estudio la obra cinematográfica de Lucrecia Martel, Paz Encina y Tatiana Huezo, examinando los puntos de (des)vinculación entre sus poéticas películas y sus precedentes históricos latinoamericanos. De esta manera, el artículo concluye que, si bien el actual cine latinoamericano debe ser concebido como heredero de las prácticas artístico-políticas defendidas por el Tercer Cine, no puede ser reducido a ellas, sino que debe ser estudiado como una superación de las mismas.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"91 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2021.1911468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42426861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reception of Día de Muertos and Frida Kahlo and Their Reincarnations in the United Kingdom (2015–2020): A Question of Cultural Degeneration or Rejuvenation (Again!)?","authors":"J. Lavery","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2021.1890432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1890432","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Día de Muertos, its (mis)appropriation and ‘halloweenization’, is an underexplored area in the context of recent (non-)British cultural production examples and the reception and consumption of this phenomenon in the UK (2015–2020). Appadurian mediascapes (Coco [2017], [online] media, Strictly Come Dancing [2004–]) and retailers reinforce halloweenized understandings of this Mexican practice, whilst awareness of Día is propelled by local community events. The 2018 Frida Kahlo Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition conflates Día with the similarly deterritorialized (García Canclini), halloweenized artist. The co-optation of Kahlo/Día as globalized reincarnations provoke opposing responses, from appropriation as either denigrative or culturally/economically beneficial.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"135 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2021.1890432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45211098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El ingenio visual de Miguel Noguera: el noveno arte vs la literatura en el cómic ‘Camilo José Cela’ (2010)","authors":"Benjamin Fraser","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2021.1893048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1893048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Este trabajo explora la producción humorística y visual de un artista multidisciplinar grancanario cuya popularidad no siempre ha sido acompañada por el reconocimiento crítico que él merece. En sus publicaciones y en sus 'Ultrashows', Miguel Noguera presenta sus 'ideas'—combinaciones de palabras e imágenes cuyo contenido contiene matices críticas, al menos para los espectadores y lectores que estén listos para percibirlas. El cómic titulado 'Camilo José Cela', publicado en Hervir un oso , ofrece la oportunidad para comentar su estilo vanguardista, trazar el desarrollo del cómic ibérico, y reivindicarlo frente al prestigio de la literatura como institución social y cultura canonizada.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"111 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2021.1893048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48479803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shame and Eviction in Juan Miguel del Castillo’s Techo y comida (2015)","authors":"K. Salmon","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2021.1875731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2021.1875731","url":null,"abstract":"In 2014, Spain’s then prime minister Mariano Rajoy declared: ‘La crisis ya es historia’. This proclamation of recovery was based solely on macro-economic indicators and reinforced a flawed hegemonic narrative equating progress with economic growth. It ignored what Labrador Méndez calls ‘historias de vida subprime’: subjective and affective accounts of the enduring eviction crisis triggered by the 2008 financial meltdown and strict austerity measures. Juan Miguel del Castillo’s film Techo y comida is one such ‘subprime’ life story. It follows Rocío, a young, unemployed, single mother facing eviction from her rental property in the absence of state or community support. Exposing the flipside to the Rajoy’s statistics, the film reveals the increasingly brutal ‘expulsions’ (Sassen) that facilitate GDP recuperation. It politicizes through affect, showing that shame functions as a mechanism for social exclusion and normalisation but also as a catalyst for altruism. Within the diegesis, Del Castillo uncovers the potent, subjective shame that conceals expulsions and allows them to proliferate. This concurrently engenders shame in the spectator, encouraging them to consider their part in sustaining these degrading processes at micro-level and pointing them towards ‘non-capitalist practices’ (Castells et al).","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"61 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2021.1875731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46532690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Out of the Gutter: The Politics of Dissent in Visual Print Media from the Spanish Transition to the Present","authors":"Bryan Cameron, Rhiannon McGlade","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2020.1825109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825109","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This monographic issue examines cultural and political dissent from late Francoism to the global financial crash of 2008 and the ensuing crisis years in Spain. The issue’s focal lens of ‘visual print media’ (VPM)—a capacious term comprising comics, tebeos, cartoons, zines and graphic novels—represents a holistic approach to form, social impact and the creative and collective practices involved in production. Out of the Gutter engages these publications in their role as vehicles for cultural resistance, which test the boundaries of censorship, political expression and personal freedom as well as the cracks in the foundations of civil society in contemporary Spain. The ‘gutter’, that liminal space between comic panels, is representative of VPM’s unique visual-verbal interplay and the way in which this formal feature can be mobilized as a tool for mapping genealogies of dissent.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"175 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43424004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V for Vivienda, V for Viñeta: Residual and Residential Politics in Spanish Comics and Graphic Novels","authors":"R. Prout","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2020.1827611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2020.1827611","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article uses new economic and activist histories of Spain’s housing sector to read the representation of residential spaces in Spanish comics and graphic novels from 13, Rue del Percebe (Francisco Ibáñez, 1961) to Españistán (Aleix Saló, 2011), and La casa (Paco Roca, 2015). It examines how visual narrative art from Spain reflects continuities between housing strategy in the Franco era and its enduring effects on Spain’s economy following the 2008 crisis. The article presents a close reading of the innovative formal, narrative, and genre-specific techniques employed by Paco Roca in La casa. Its discrete sections articulate an economic and social history suturing the dictatorship period and the post-transitional democratic era, around the triadic development model (tourism-construction-financial development) pursued in Spain since the 1950s.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"285 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2020.1827611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48751438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reescrituras políticas del pasado: una aproximación gestual e iconológica a la representación del pasado en el cómic español contemporáneo","authors":"I. Iranzo","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2020.1825158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825158","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract El presente artículo da cuenta de una investigación sobre los gestos y formas de representación de la Guerra Civil española y la dictadura de Franco en el cómic contemporáneo. Las fisuras en la articulación de la Transición democrática española— urgidas por la crisis económica de 2008—catalizaron la aparición de un gran número de cómics, de autores como Kim y Antonio Altarriba, Paco Roca y Jaime Martín, preocupados no sólo por la reescritura del pasado sino también por la revisitación de unos gestos de sufrimiento reactivados, en ocasiones, por los desahucios y la pobreza suscitada por la crisis. A partir de una metodología basada tanto en la iconología gestual de Aby Warburg como en el estudio de los dispositivos de representación histórica, se propone una aproximación hermenéutica en función de tres coordenadas fundamentales: 1) la transmisión de las fórmulas gestuales o pathos de la Guerra Civil y la dictadura en el cómic; 2) la disposición del lenguaje secuencial del cómic para trabajar sobre memorias que no disponen de documentos visuales y su capacidad para dar una nueva forma a la figura del testigo, y 3) la figuración de los cuerpos muertos, heridos y no identificados provocados por la guerra.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"259 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44187412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La consciencia de la voz adulta en el cómic: transiciones estéticas y miradas políticas","authors":"Ana Merino","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2020.1825135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825135","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Los jóvenes autores españoles que vivieron la Transición, fueron conscientes de la fuerza que tenía su mirada creativa y de que estaban en un período de transformación y cambio del género. Este ensayo recorrerá los trabajos y vivencias de autores como Max, Gallardo y Nazario que presenciaron la Transición con una mirada consciente de lo que significaba el nuevo espacio de libertad que estrenaban. Por un lado, digerían la fuerza de las estéticas internacionales que se filtraban y ya daban paso a posicionamientos adultos contraculturales. A ellos les tocó aprender a modular sus propias voces adultas y reconocer la realidad circundante de un nuevo país en formación. Los discursos políticos impregnaron un presente que ellos articularon con nuevas propuestas narrativas donde el cómic generó algunos de los diálogos más interesantes y subversivos de la historia de la cultura contemporánea española. Gracias al cómic y su capacidad para entender lo que significó la Transición, se abordaron desde mediados de los setenta y comienzos de los ochenta temas claves como la memoria, la identidad sexual, el ecologismo, o la libertad de expresión. De pronto un espacio cultural que se asumía como infantil, ofrecía y sumaba nuevas pautas vitales que redefinían la España futura.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"239 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43430952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Oppositional Means: The Illustrated Zine Literature of Queer Activist Groups in Spain, 1970s to the Present","authors":"Jonathan Snyder","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2020.1825160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825160","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article traces a brief history of zine literature produced by gay and lesbian activist circles in Spain from the late Francoist years to present, paying specific attention to the publications by the queer Madrid-based groups La Radical Gai and Lesbianas Sin Duda (LSD) in the 1990s. Self-published graphic content is analysed alongside the collective process to produce this literature in an effort to question the ways in which these publications articulate and enact the activist values of the social group in the practice of fanzine creation itself. This article proposes that the collective creation of zine literature in queer activist collectives has operated as both a mode of and means for sustaining oppositional mobilization.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"305 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2020.1825160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42578285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}