This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema.
While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously changing processes in which a variety of economic, social and cultural factors intervene. The book first analyzes the main horror trends emerging in the early 2000s, then approaches genre hybridization and the rise of new filmmakers since the 2010s with a special focus on gender issues and the reconfiguration of the past, before addressing the impact of streaming services within the Spanish film panorama, from a production and distribution standpoint.
This book will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the areas of film studies, media studies, TV studies, horror, Spanish cultural studies and production studies.
Author(s): Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, Rubén Romero Santos
Series: Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 115
City: London
Cover
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Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Spanish Horror in the 21st Century
1.1. What’s Spanish Cinema of the 21st Century Afraid of ?
1.2. The Rise of Spanish Horror Films in the 21st Century
1.2.1. Spanish Horror in the 1990s & Early 2000s: New Directors, New Trends
1.2.2. The Streamers Era
1.2.3. Horror & Women
1.3. Book Structure
2 Early 2000s: Industrial Dynamics, Production Trends & Transnationalization
2.1. From The Others to The Orphanage via Guillermo del Toro
2.2. English-Language Spanish (Co)-Productions: An “International Style”
3 [Rec]: An International Franchise
3.1. [Rec] in Context: Data & Reception
3.2. [Rec] & Found Footage Horror
3.3. [Rec], Reality TV & Factuals
3.4. Filmax & the duo Balagueró/Plaza
3.5. From Horror to Comedy to Horror (Imperfection Will Be Over) & the Transnational Routes of [Rec]
3.6. [Rec]’s Legacy
4 Horror & Genre Hybridization
4.1. Horror/Melodrama: From The Skin I Live In to Blancanieves
4.1.1. The Skin I Live In: From Melodramatic Revenge to Surgical Horror
4.1.2. Blancanieves: Violent Chiaroscuros and Women’s Suffering
4.2. Horror/Sci-Fi, Ecohorror & the Apocalypse
4.3. The Baztán Trilogy (2017–2020): From Bestsellers to the Cinema
5 Horror & Gender
5.1. Masculinity in Crisis in the Horror Thriller
5.2. Female Bodies & the Male Gaze
5.3. Spanish Women Make Horror
6 Horror & the Past
6.1. Francoism’s Monstrous Memory
6.2. Spanish Folk Horror
7 Horror & Streaming
7.1. Streaming Platforms: New Production & Distribution Models
7.2. Streaming Platforms in Spain & Horror
7.3. Tales To Be Awake: Rebooting a Classic
7.4. 30 Coins & The Fear Collection: Álex de la Iglesia as a Streaming Brand
8 Conclusions
Index
