Celestino Deleyto

María del Mar Azcona

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus. Working in the United States and in Mexico, Iñárritu crosses national borders while his movies break the barriers of distribution, production, narration, and style. His features also experiment with transnational identity as characters emigrate and settings change. In studying the international scope of Iñárritu's influential films Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, Celestino Deleyto and María del Mar Azcona trace common themes such as human suffering and redemption, chance, and accidental encounters. The authors also analyze the director's powerful visual style and his consistent use of multiple characters and a fragmented narrative structure. The book concludes with a new interview with Iñárritu that touches on the themes and subject matter of his chief works.

HOW A DEADLY EXPLOSION AND A FEARED ADMIRAL CHANGE

ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU

David Walton

Luz Mar González-Arias

Neil Campbell

Miriam Borham-Puyal

Laura Monrós-Gaspar

Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo

Rosario Arias

Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz

Alberto Lázaro Lafuente

Alejandro Peraza Díaz

Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo

Amaia Soroa Bacaicoa

Ángel Chaparro Sainz

Ángeles Jordán Soriano

Bárbara Arizti Martín

Celia Fullana

Cristina Aliaga-García

Daniela Pettersson-Traba

David Hernández Coalla

Elena Dobre 

Ester Díaz Morillo

Eva Darias Beautell

Fabián Orán Llarena

Georgina Alvarez-Morera

Gorka Braceras Martínez

Ingrid Mora-Plaza

Irene Repiso Rodríguez

Isabel González Díaz

Isabel Oltra-Massuet 

Ismael Ibáñez Rosales

Iván Tamaredo Meira 

Joan Carles Mora

José Francisco Fernández 

Laura Gutiérrez González

Laura Martínez-García

Lin Pettersson 

Mar Nieves Fernández

María Heredia-Torres

María Isabel Marqués López

María Jesús Llarena Ascanio

Mario Serrano Losada

Miguel Sebastián-Martín

Mireia Ortega

Noelia Castro Chao

Nora Rodríguez-Loro 

Óscar Alonso Álvarez

Rosa Haro Fernández

Sara Albán Barcia 

Yolanda Fernández-Pena

"Moving beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain" contains the Proceedings of the 44th AEDEAN (Asociación española de estudios anglo-norteamericanos) Conference held in November, 2021 at the University of Cantabria, Spain. The volume is structured into four different sections: “Plenary Speakers”, “Language and Linguistics”, “Literature and Culture” and “Round Tables”. The “Plenary Speakers” section includes papers written by two outstanding figures in the fields of Western Studies and Film Studies, respectively: Neil Campbell’s “An Inventory of Echoes”: Worlding the Western in Trump Era Fiction and Celestino Deleyto’s Transnational Stars and the Idea of Europe: Marion Cotillard, Diane Kruger. The “Language and Linguistics” section includes eleven papers that tackle a variety of issues concerning synchronic and diachronic phenomena in the English language of either native or non-native speakers at the phonetic, lexical, or grammatical level. These studies are indicative of the various current methodological approaches to research in subfields such as language teaching, contrastive linguistics, language contact or language variation, to name but a few. The “Literature and Culture Studies” section contains nineteen papers on topics as diverse as the field itself, ranging from Irish, Canadian, South African, Australian, American or English Literature to Film, Television and Cultural Studies. Finally, the “Round Tables” section comprises four round tables on Literature, Music, Film and Cultural Studies. The contributions included in this volume are a representative and significant sample of the quality of the research being carried out at present in Spanish Universities in the fields of English and American Studies, and are solid evidence that our field is moving beyond the pandemic and is in excellent health.

Moving Beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain

Peter William Evans

This book examines the rebirth of a staple Hollywood genre. Taking into account romantic comedy's current popularity and the genre's adaptability to changing historical circumstances, as well as its powerful tendency to contain and assimilate social changes, it explores the complex ways in which recent cultural discourses on gender and sexuality have found their way into the apparently inflexible structure of romantic comedy.

Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s

Terms of Endearment

Ángeles y demonios es un libro sobre las dimensiones ideológicas de la representación en el cine contemporáneo estadounidense. A lo largo de siete capítulos se trata de trazar un panorama de la cinematografía más importante del mundo que, sin aspirar a la exhaustividad, pretende al menos explorar algunos de sus aspectos más relevantes en las dos últimas décadas. Sin dejar de lado otras consideraciones, el libro se centra en el análisis de los géneros cinematográficos, el cine de alto presupuesto, el cine independiente, el fenómeno de las estrellas cinematográficas y el cine de animación, así como temas más explícitamente ideológicos como la representación de la masculinidad, la feminidad, la heterosexualidad, la homosexualidad, la orientación sexual o la adolescencia. La aproximación utilizada combina la teoría cinematográfica y cultural con el análisis textual, la contextualización histórica con el estudio de las convenciones genéricas y narrativas. Cada capítulo consta de una introducción general al tema tratado y un estudio detallado de una o varias películas representativas, seleccionadas no tanto por criterios de calidad artística como de relevancia cultural. En su conjunto, el autor argumenta que el cine estadounidense actual, tanto el más comercial como el llamado independiente, tiene una gran trascendencia en nuestras vidas, incluso, o especialmente, en el caso de los productos de masas aparentemente más triviales e inocentes. Dirigido tanto a estudiantes de cine y cultura en general como a aficionados al séptimo arte, el libro invita a reflexionar sobre el fenómeno cinematográfico y sobre los lazos invisibles que unen representación e ideología.

representación e ideología en el cine contemporáneo de Hollywood

Ángeles y demonios

The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of traditional accounts of the genre, this book advocates a more flexible theory, which allows the student to explore the presence of the genre in unexpected places, extending the concept to encompass films that are not usually considered romantic comedies. Combining theory with detailed analyses of a selection of films, including To Be or Not to Be (1942), Rear Window (1954), Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Before Sunset (2004), the book aims to provide a practical framework for the exploration of a key area of contemporary experience – intimate matters – through one of its most powerful filmic representations: the genre of romantic comedy. Original and entertaining, The secret life of romantic comedy is perfect for students and academics of film and film genre.

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