{"title":"Death, tourism and balconies in <i>Magaluf Ghost Town</i> (Blanca 2021)","authors":"Bob Davidson","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2272045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2272045","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Miguel Ángel Blanca’s eccentric docufiction film, Magaluf Ghost Town, follows three residents of the Mallorcan resort area during the 2019 tourist season. By offering locals’ perspectives on lives tied to the excesses of low-cost tourism, the film traces their respective desires to withstand, break and transform the Faustian pact through which this part of Calvià municipality has made its living. Tourism infrastructure visually organizes the picture, with one space in particular – the hotel balcony – playing an important aesthetic and thematic role. Yet, while the overt references to balconing – the often-fatal tourist practice of jumping into a pool from one’s room – seem to parrot media-driven coverage, I argue that Blanca’s picture instead offers a counternarrative that challenges stereotypes by destabilizing the traditional tourist gaze through the mise-en-scène. By further cloaking his critique in the supernatural, the director plays with documentary tropes in a way that spurs the viewer to think about tourism beyond the news. In giving space to individual local voices and experiences, he lets us explore the deep affect that the tourist landscapes evoke in a constituency that is all too often left outside the frame.","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"232 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women, mysticism, and hysteria in <i>fin-de-siècle</i> SpainWomen, mysticism, and hysteria in <i>fin-de-siècle</i> Spain, by Jennifer Smith, Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 2021, 271 pp., $99.95(hardback), ISBN-13 978-0826501875 / $34.96(paperback), ISBN-13 978-0826501868.","authors":"Gabrielle Miller","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2271284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2271284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"155 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136263432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discordant notes: marginality and social control in Madrid, 1850–1930 <b>Discordant notes: marginality and social control in Madrid, 1850–1930</b> , by Samuel Llano, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, 272 pp., £47.99 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0199392469","authors":"Michael Christoforidis","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2271283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2271283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135218252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To embody the marvelous: the making of illusions in early modern Spain <b>To embody the marvelous: the making of illusions in early modern Spain</b> , by Esther Fernández, Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 2021, 232 pp., $99.95 (hardback), ISBN-13 978-0826501806 / $34.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-0826501790","authors":"David R. Castillo","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2271282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2271282","url":null,"abstract":"\"To embody the marvelous: the making of illusions in early modern Spain.\" Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"34 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135112448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fashioning Spain: from mantillas to Rosalía","authors":"Dorota K. Heneghan","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2242185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2242185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"457 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43220111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las Entrañablesas: cómic e intervención política feminista en la transición española","authors":"María Hernández-Etura","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2244662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2244662","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN En el año 1977 se funda en Barcelona el bar-biblioteca LaSal, vibrante centro de reflexión feminista con editorial propia. Entre las obras artísticas que produce, creadas exclusivamente por mujeres, está el cómic Las Entrañablesas, serie de 7 episodios publicada en la revista Mundo de enero a febrero de 1977. Esta obra coral firmada por Montse Clavé, Mari Chordà, Amparo Tuñón y Ana Díaz-Plaja traslada al lenguaje del cómic el proyecto feminista plural en el que muchas intelectuales se encontraban inmersas en la España de mediados de los años 70. A través del análisis visual de la obra se observa una profunda crítica a la perpetuación de una imagen cosificada de la mujer que tanto los medios masivos como la sociedad en general llevan a cabo. Tomando como marco teórico el concepto écriture féminine de la feminista francesa Hélène Cixous, se analiza cómo Las Entrañablesas responde a las características de este concepto no solo en sus innovaciones formales y de contenido, sino en su propósito de desestabilizar y confrontar un lenguaje estructurado por dictados androcéntricos, convirtiendo el simple acto de crear el cómic en pura resistencia feminista.","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"375 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48366667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El papel de las redes sociales en la configuración de los guionistas como profesionales creativos en España: el caso de Bloguionistas","authors":"Cristina Pujol Ozonas, J. Sánchez-Navarro","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2242072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2242072","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN El artículo propone analizar el guion como una práctica profesional creativa pero también como un discurso que construye e imagina el proceso de escritura de una determinada manera. En el contexto de las plataformas digitales, el medio audiovisual se ha convertido en un sector estratégico de las políticas nacionales y los guionistas españoles han pasado de ser un colectivo marginal de la industria a situarse en el centro del sistema. Nuestra hipótesis de partida es que este proceso ha supuesto la construcción de una identidad común, una representación del guionista profesional contemporáneo que ha encontrado en internet el espacio privilegiado en el que compartir sus relatos. El artículo propone como estudio de caso la creación en 2009 del site Bloguionistas.com, un popular blog colectivo cuya vocación es la de ser “la voz de los guionistas en castellano”. Se analizan sus primeros posts para describir, por un lado, el modo en el que el asesoramiento de guion se inscribe en la lógica del capitalismo emocional, generando un espacio público digital desde el que compartir experiencias y colectivizar un malestar laboral y profesional compartido por muchos guionistas y aspirantes a acceder a la industria audiovisual española. Por otro lado, se observa el modo en que los guionistas participan en la lógica del emprendimiento cultural propia de las profesiones creativas, lo que les permite adquirir capital simbólico desde el blog y reclamar autoridad para definir qué es ser un guionista profesional en España.","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"395 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44132065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Ella era un objeto”: cuidados y conflicto capital-vida en Estamos todas bien (2017) y Así vivimos el 8M (2019) de Ana Penyas","authors":"X. Dapena","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2244676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2244676","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN La movilización sin precedentes del 8 de marzo de 2018 colapsó las plazas y calles de todo el Estado español. A lo largo de este ensayo se articula el registro gráfico de los cuidados como una reivindicación concreta e histórica a través, principalmente, de la novela gráfica Estamos todas bien (2017) y del breve cómic digital Así vivimos el 8M (2019), ambos de Ana Penyas. Además de trazar la relación de la sostenibilidad de la vida y la narrativa gráfica, mediante la que se recuperan relatos de vida y generan espacios a resguardo, se aborda la invisibilidad y devaluación del trabajo reproductivo en el marco del conflicto capital-vida y se argumenta, a través de varios movimientos, que la intersección de la cosificación y el desplazamiento son procesos relacionados con esta devaluación.","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"413 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44496153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sexual upheaval of the Spanish sixties: gender and sexual-affective diversities under Franco’s authoritarian regime","authors":"Rosa María Medina-Domenech","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2244652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2244652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Variation and diversity played a dynamic role in creating social heterogeneity in the Spanish 1960s and resisting the homogenizing purposes of an authoritarian moral project. Inspired by Eve K. Sedgwick, my study goes beyond presentist genealogies of identity and vindication of variation in sexual orientation. I assemble an archive of diversities to explore this sexual heterogeneity of the Spanish sixties. I show the “Kinsey effect”, or the influence of Alfred Kinsey’s (1894–1956) matter-of-fact studies on sexual variation in Spain, through Spanish medical literature written by doctors, and a number of Spanish surveys on sexuality. I also show how incipient consumerism destabilized the sex/gender system and diversified masculinity. I contend that audiences may interpret certain representations of ambivalent masculinities, shaped by modern femininities, as transgressing gender codes. Finally, I rely on the Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929–1990) to argue that Sedgwick’s criticism of a simplistic understanding of sexuality highlights the poet’s difference in transgressing normative masculinity and living out the traditional sex/love binary. My archive of diversities helps to connect biological ideas of sexual variation to political notions of diversity and difference in the Spanish sixties.","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"339 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48027061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antidisturbios (Movistar+, 2020): la innovación en la ficción televisiva española del género policial","authors":"J. Mateos-Pérez","doi":"10.1080/14636204.2023.2244679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2023.2244679","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN El presente trabajo considera como objeto de investigación la multipremiada serie Antidisturbios (Movistar, 2020). Esta ficción se entiende como aporte de la industria televisiva española contemporánea a la producción de calidad, a partir de una reformulación específica que actualiza el género policiaco a los nuevos tiempos. Los objetivos de la investigación buscan: inscribir la serie en el contexto histórico de la producción televisiva policiaca española y observar la reinterpretación que realiza del género; examinar la representación de los personajes policías, e identificar y analizar el empleo de los diferentes recursos que dotan a la narración de realismo y de un trasfondo sociopolítico reconocible. Con este fin se aplica una metodología cualitativa que emplea el análisis textual y recurre a los estudios culturales con el objeto de situar y contextualizar culturalmente el objeto de estudio. Los resultados de este análisis permiten descubrir una relación directa entre la ficción y la actualidad española. El género policiaco se reformula para ofrecer la imagen de un país en declive, consecuencia de la pérdida de valores. En el centro del relato se sitúa la corrupción, arraigada en todos los niveles: individual, colectivo e institucional.","PeriodicalId":44289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"435 - 448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48755149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}