Chapter 1 Introduction: How and Why this Book Came into Being
Chapter 2 Spanish Films, 1992–2012: Two Decades of Cinematic Production and Critical Discourse
Chapter 3 From the Past to the Present: Contemporising Trends that Define Spanish Cinema
Part 1: Sense and Sensibility: New Forms of Being and Seeing in Recent Spanish Cinema
Chapter 4 Back to Africa? Colonial History and Postcolonial Dynamics in Recent Spanish Cinema
Chapter 5 The New Ethos of Gay Culture and the Limits of Normalization
Chapter 6 Behind the Enigma Construct: A Certain Trend in Spanish Cinema
Chapter 7 Reproduction and Rhetorical Processes in the Construction of Reality: En Construcción and La leyenda del tiempo as Case Studies
Chapter 8 Art and Ethnography: Miquel Barceló and Isaki Lacuesta – Earth Magicians?
Chapter 9 The Everyday Affect: Isabel Coixet and the Five Senses
Part 2: Revisiting the Past: The Politics of Memory and the Transition’s Cinematic Legacy
Chapter 10 Ana Torrent as Palimpsest in Elio Quiroga’s No-Do (The Haunting)
Chapter 11 Victimhood in Contemporary Spanish Documentary: The Politics of Agency in Jaime Camino’s La vieja memoria and Los niños de Rusia
Chapter 12 New Bodies, New Sounds: Rediscovering the Eroticism of the Transition
Chapter 13 Blood and Unfulfilled Promises: Representations of Terrorism and the Transition
Chapter 14 Back to the Future: Repackaging Spain’s Troublesome Past for Local and Global Audiences
Chapter 15 Clowns, Goats, Music and the Comedic Violent: Late Francoism and the Transition to Democracy in Álex de la Iglesia’s Films
Part 3: Redefining Auteurship, Genre and Stardom in a Transnational Age
Chapter 16 Almodóvar in the USA / The USA in Almodóvar
Chapter 17 Acting and Directing in Spain: Historicizing Stardom and the Author Function
Chapter 18 Sex, Art and Commerce: Penélope Cruz and Isabel Coixet Tackle Philip Roth in Elegy
Chapter 19 Deadly Hybridity: Sexykiller, the Female Serial Killer and the New Spanish Horror Film
Chapter 20 Flexing Generic Boundaries: Torrente, [REC] and Adolescent Cinema in Spain
Chapter 21 The Torrente Tetralogy: A Homegrown Saga
Chapter 22 Hybrid Models: Auteurism and Genre in Contemporary Spanish Crime Thrillers
Chapter 23 Planet 51 and Spanish Animation: The Risks and Attractions of Globalization