The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

• Main Author: Palardy, Diana Q. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Hispanic Urban Studies,
• Subjects: Ethnology-Europe.; Motion pictures-European influences.; Sociology, Urban.; European literature.; Motion pictures.; European Culture.; European Cinema and TV.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; European Literature.; Close Reading.

This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Path to Voluntary Confinement: Dystopian Spaces of Consumerism in Ray Loriga's Tokio ya no nos quiere
• 3. Grafting the Global North onto the Global South: Dystopian Transhumanism in Elia Barceló's "Mil euros por tu vida"
• 4. The Architecture of Avarice in Ion de Sosa's Sueñan los androides or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Economic Crisis and Love the Sheep
• 5. Sensescapes of Precarity in El salario del gigante by José Ardillo, Madrid: frontera by David Llorente, and Nos mienten by Eduardo Vaquerizo
• 6. The Cartography of In/subordination in El sistema by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
• 7. Conclusion.