{"title":"Paul Julian Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Julian Smith’s works offer insightful explorations into \u003cstrong\u003eSpanish visual culture\u003c\/strong\u003e and the dynamic landscape of Latin American media. His writing delves deeply into the artistic and cultural significance of film, television, and popular culture, bringing sharp analysis and contextual richness to each topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a thoughtful examination of themes such as the evolution of Mexican television drama and the cultural impact of landmark films like \u003cem\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/em\u003e. Smith’s books provide a nuanced understanding of arts and culture within Spanish-speaking contexts, making them essential for enthusiasts and scholars alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"spanish-visual-culture-by-paul-julian-smith-9780719075360","title":"Spanish visual culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpanish Visual Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television, and the internet. It examines cultural products in each of these media through three vital themes: emotion, location, and nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first two chapters focus on emotion. They analyse the 'emotional imperative' in a recent Almodóvar feature film and in Spanish television's top-rated period drama, investigating the politics of affect in TV drama over the last decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe next pair of chapters deals with location. They utilise cultural geography to re-read contradictory accounts of the movida (the post-Franco cultural boom) and examine an attempt to anchor a US-derived genre (the youth movie) in the urban landscape of Madrid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fifth and sixth chapters introduce the theme of location into nostalgia. They address the unique cases of a successful Spanish heritage movie and a contemporary Spanish thriller remade in Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe penultimate chapter investigates electronic artists and the virtual universe, culminating in a look at the implications of Hispano-Mexican co-productions and the interconnectedness of economic and aesthetic cultural forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598391394540,"sku":"9780719075360","price":102.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780719075360-spanish-visual-culture.jpg?v=1777966381"},{"product_id":"y-tu-mama-tambien-by-paul-julian-smith-9781839025204","title":"Y Tu Mamá También","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time. Its teenage protagonists Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be major stars of global cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet on its release, the film was vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and \u003cem\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/em\u003e fantasy of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul Julian Smith's lucid study of the film argues that \u003cem\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/em\u003e not only addresses with playful seriousness such major issues as gender, race, class, and space, which are yet more urgent now than they were on its release; but that the film’s apparently casual aesthetic masks a sophisticated audiovisual style, one which brings together popular genre film and auteurist experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith suggests \u003cem\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/em\u003e remains an example for world cinema of how a very local film can connect with a global audience that is ignorant of such niceties. Combining production and distribution history, based on unexplored material held in Mexico City archives, with close textual analysis, Smith makes an argument for Cuarón’s film as an enduring masterpiece that hides in plain sight as an ephemeral teen movie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601476567276,"sku":"9781839025204","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d1cef79ee30836408bc6ac8d09a15de3.jpg?v=1778017265"},{"product_id":"television-drama-in-mexico-by-paul-julian-smith-9781399560528","title":"Television Drama in Mexico","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses, for the first time, innovative Mexican television drama of the current decade. It provides an account of the processes of production and reception for seven series, offering close textual readings of individual episodes. At this critical time for the medium, the transition between national network television (Televisa) and transnational streaming platforms (Netflix and Amazon Prime), Mexican creators, mainly women, have responded with new and exciting innovations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on three genres. First, it shows how the much despised and loved heritage telenovela, addressed primarily to a female audience, has adapted to changed circumstances by addressing once taboo social issues and how a classic broadcast title is adapted for a new platform. Second, it examines fiction series and true crime titles, which investigate the key and troubled topic of the legal process in Mexico. 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