The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature & Flim

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ISBN: 9783319928845
Author/Editor: Diana Q Palardly

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2018

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This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barcelo, Ion de Sosa, Jose Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menendez Salmon offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.

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Weight 0.56 kg

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Year of Publication

2018

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Path to Voluntary Confinement: Dystopian Spaces of Consumerism in Ray Loriga's Tokio ya no nos quiere 3. Grafting the Global North onto the Global South: Dystopian Transhumanism in Elia Barcelo's "Mil euros por tu vida" 4. The Architecture of Avarice in Ion de Sosa's Suenan los androides or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Economic Crisis and Love the Sheep 5. Sensescapes of Precarity in El salario del gigante by Jose Ardillo, Madrid: frontera by David Llorente, and Nos mienten by Eduardo Vaquerizo 6. The Cartography of In/subordination in El sistema by Ricardo Menendez Salmon 7. Conclusion

Author

Diana Q Palardly

ISBN/ISSN

9783319928845

Binding

Hardback

Edition

1

Publisher

Springer

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