Professor of Hispanic Studies Chris Perriam

Christopher Perriam

A study of the careers of Spanish film actors Imanol Arias, Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Jordi Mollà, and Jorge Sanz who all had their first big success in major films of the post-Franco period. A further four younger actors, Eduardo Noriega, Fele Martínez, Liberto Rabal, and Juan Diego Botto are also covered, but less extensively.

From Banderas to Bardem

Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema

Michael Thompson

Vanessa Knights

Chris Perriam

Susan Frenk

Both Lecturers in Spanish Susan Frenk

A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s explores the diversity of some sixty years of imaginative writing by Spaniards, its interactions with Spain's peculiarly dramatic history since the end of its Civil War, and its wider thematic significance. It covers the famous and canonical texts of the most recent in Modern Spanish literature but also explores areas less well-known outside Spain (essays and editorials, queer narrative, new poetry, comics, and texts of the militant and reactionary Right). More space than is usual in literary histories is allowed for commentary on famous texts, but the book also makes room for the marginalized and for socially contextualized explorations of the interconnectedness of various forms of writing. The overall structure is not chronological but thematic, dealing with abstract and topical issues such as silence, the family, or realism.

A New History of Spanish Writing, 1939 to the 1990s

Ann Davies

Bruce Babington

Phil Powrie

Professor of French Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research Into Film Phil Powrie

Ian Biddle

Traces the cinematic history of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale

A Cultural History

Carmen on Film

Professor of Hispanic Studies Chris Perriam

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