Spanish and Latin American studies

Provides stills and essays establishing the key players and genres in their sociopolitical context, including civil war films, romances, comedies, and the cinema of the transition.

Bringing together contributions by leading experts and emerging young scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the region's diverse films.

Provides an understanding of the role Spanish cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on producers, directors, film companies, actors, and films.

A collection of essays that explores Spanish cinema's cultural, artistic, industrial, theoretical and commercial contexts pre- and post-1975 and the notion of a "national" cinema.

A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty-first century.

Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of "transmedia" works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.