Books in the Monografias A series

Why has Portugal's vibrant and creative cinema industry not been more commercially successful?This book traces the evolution of Portuguese cinema between the beginning of the New Cinema movement in 1960 and the height of the economic crisis in 2010 from a socio-cultural and economic perspective. It aims to explain why this vibrant and creative industry has not been more commercially successful and pays especial attention to questions of financial viability, domestic consumption, international distribution, and the effects of legislation. It shows how film-makers have responded to historical difficulties and material obstacles and how market conditions have influenced aesthetics. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, film theory, and history, the book assesses the place of Portuguese cinema within Portuguese culture as well as the wider film world. While focussed on the case of Portugal, it also sheds light on problems faced by other peripheral film cultures in the international marketplace and on the festival circuit.

A comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Martin Gaite's work.

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism.

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance.

Seminal studies of Spain's greatest dramatist on his fourth centenary.

One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century.

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature.

This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and theatrical works, but above all in his novels.

The author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity.

Challenges the view that that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this led to their expulsion between 1609 and 1614.

Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists.

A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.

The first in-depth yet accessible introduction to Galician history and culture for both lay and specialized readers.

Shows how the experience of violence in Argentina shed light on a new sense of "being together" that goes beyond bloodline ties.

The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento enla poesia espanola del siglo de oro

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

Domus offers a novel analysis of literary representations of homes and urban dwellings in early modern Spain.

A compelling account of the role of Fado and the fadista in Portuguese film and the wider culture.

Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life.

A comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America.

Argues for Ocampo's multifaceted development of ambiguity in various media and genres on the levels of language, plot and gender.

Terukina ofrece una nueva biografia de Bernardo de Balbuena y analiza la compleja matriz interdisciplinaria de Grandeza mexicana (1604). Terukina offers an updated biography of Bernardo de Balbuena and analyzes the complex interdisciplinary matrix within which Grandeza mexicana (1604) is articulated.

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America.

Explores Celestina's role as a key interlocutor in European literature and thought in the context of debates about the human condition.

Examines the importance of intertextuality, in particular hypertextuality, in the poetics of Castilian romances of chivalry.