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• Introduction. Tete's Musical Biography
• Sketches of Flamenco
• The Urban Soundscapes of Modern Jazz
• Performing Catalanism
• Blues, Braille and the Metanarrative of Blindness
• Epilogue. The Jazz Artist in Transnational Popular Culture

Few musicians shaped Iberian jazz more than pianist Vicenc "Tete" Montoliu i Massana (1933-97). Fascinated by the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Montoliu was known for a carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, a penchant for discordant crashes, and a development of highly original compositions. Over the course of his career, he boasted some 100 recordings spanning Denmark, Germany, Holland, Spain, and the United States, and performed with the most notable jazz luminaries including Lionel Hampton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, and Archie Shepp. In drawing from the Black American jazz form, Montoliu fashioned an adjacent critical space shaped by his experiences as a Catalan and a person with congenital visual impairment living under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz explores the artist's life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework, invoking Fumi Okiji's notion of gathering in difference. In its investigation of this impressive and often overlooked transnational jazz legend, the book moves beyond mere sketches of Spanish nationhood, challenges conventional scholarly narratives, and recovers links between the United States, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and Europe.
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"Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities"-- Provided by publisher

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development. This is the quintessentially modern city that comes into being in the nineteenth century. In social terms, this nineteenth-century city is the product of a specialist class of planners engaged in what urban theorist Henri Lefebvre has called the bourgeois science of modern urbanism. One thinks first of the large scale and the wide boulevards of Baron Georges von Haussmann's Paris or the geometrical planning vision of Ildefons CerdA's Barcelona. The modern science of urban design famously inaugurates a new way of thinking the city; urban modernity is now defined by the triumph of exchange value over use value, and the lived city is eclipsed by the planned city as it is envisioned by capitalists, builders and speculators. Thus urban plans, architecture, literary prose and poetry, documentary cinema and fiction film, and comics art serve as windows into our modern obsession with urban aesthetics. Our collective cultural obsession with the urban environment has endured, from the nineteenth century through today. This book investigates the social relationships implied in our urban modernity by concentrating on four cities that are in broad strokes representative of the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the Iberian peninsula. Each chapter introduces but moves well beyond an identifiable urban area in a given city, noting the cultural obsession implicit in its reconstruction as well as the role of obsession in its artistic representation of the urban environment. These areas are Barcelona's Eixample district, Madrid's Linear City, Lisbon's central Baixa area, and Bilbao's Seven Streets, or Zazpikaleak. The theme of obsession-which as explored is synonymous with the concept of partial madness-provides a point of departure for understanding the interconnection of both urbanistic and artistic discourses.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Selected Artist Chronology Important Note on Spain for the General Reader Introduction: Pere Joan's Comics Geographies
• Chapter 1. The Comics Landscape of Spain
• Chapter 2. Topographies of the Image, Panel, and Page: Comics Narration Three Ways
• Chapter 3. Rural Cartographies: Emotion, Ecology, and Subjectivity
• Chapter 4. Urban Geographies: Cityscapes, Mobility, and Belonging
• Chapter 5. Island Imaginaries: Mallorca's Cultural Landscapes Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuZrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain's transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach to reading comics, applying theories of cultural and urban geography to Pere Joan's treatment of space and landscape in his singular body of work. Balancing this goal with an exploration of specific works by Pere Joan, Benjamin Fraser demonstrates that looking at the thematic, structural, and aesthetic originality of the artist's landscape-driven work can help us begin to newly understand the representational properties of comics as a spatial medium. This in-depth examination reveals the resonance between the cultural landscapes of Mallorca and Pere Joan's metaphorical approach to both rural and urban environments in comics that weave emotional, ecological, and artistic strands in revolutionary ways.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The modern city streets
• The passions of everyday urban life
• Urban planning, built environment, and the structure of cities
• Architecture, materiality, and the tactile city
• Danger, disease, and death in the graphic urban imagination
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index.

More and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces within the layout of panels on the comics page. Benjamin Fraser explores the representation of the city in a range of comics from across the globe. Comics address the city as an idea, a historical fact, a social construction, a material-built environment, a shared space forged from the collective imagination, or as a social arena navigated according to personal desire. Accordingly, Fraser brings insights from urban theory to bear on specific comics. The works selected comprise a variety of international, alternative, and independent small-press comics artists, from engravings and early comics to single-panel work, graphic novels, manga, and trading cards, by artists such as Will Eisner, Tsutomu Nihei, Hariton Pushwagner, Julie Doucet, Frans Masereel, and Chris Ware. In the first monograph on this Subject, Fraser touches on many themes of modern urban life: activism, alienation, consumerism, flanerie, gentrification, the mystery story, science fiction, sexual orientation, and working-class labor. He leads readers to images of such cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London, Lyon, Madrid, Montevideo, Montreal, New York, Oslo, Paris, Sao Paolo, and Tokyo. Through close readings, each chapter introduces readers to specific comics artists and works and investigates a range of topics related to the medium's spatial form, stylistic variation, and cultural prominence. Mainly, Fraser mixes interest in urbanism and architecture with the creative strategies that comics artists employ to bring their urban images to life.
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• Introduction
• PART I: THEORETICAL GROUND 1. Why Urban Cultural Studies? Why Henri Lefebvre? 2. Henri Lefebvre's Recalibrated Marxism: Urban Alienation and Cultural Studies 3. The Work (of Art): Putting Art at the Service of the Urban Part II: TEXTUAL VARIATIONS 4. The Urban Dominant: Everyday Life and the City in Textual Criticism 5. The Iconic-Indexical City:Visions of Place in Urban Films 6. Listening to Urban Rhythms:Soundscapes in Popular Music 7. Representing Digital Spaces: Videogames and the Digital Humanities Conclusion.
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Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre. Appropriate for both beginners and specialists, the first half of this book builds from a general introduction to Lefebvre and his methodological contribution toward a focus on the concept of urban alienation and his underexplored theory of the work of art. The second half merges Lefebvrian urban thought with literary studies, film studies and popular music studies, successively, before turning to the videogame and the digital humanities. Benjamin Fraser's approach consistently emphasizes the interrelationship between cities, culture, and capital.
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• Contents List of Illustrations Note on Translations Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction: Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds OneGran Via (1974-1981) TwoMadrid desde Torres Blancas (1974-1982) ThreeMadrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas (1990-2006) Epilogue: El sol del membrillo (1992) Bibliography About the Author Index.
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Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio Lopez has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urban scenes-but it is urban time that is his real subject. Going far beyond mere artist biography, Benjamin Fraser explores the relevance of multiple disciplines to an understanding of the painter's large-scale canvasses. Weaving selected images together with their urban referents-and without ever straying too far from discussion of the painter's oeuvre, method and reception by critics-Fraser pulls from disciplines as varied as philosophy, history, Spanish literature and film, cultural studies, urban geography, architecture, and city planning in his analyses. The book begins at ground level with one of the artist's most recognizable images, the Gran Via, which captures the urban project that sought to establish Madrid as an emblem of modernity. Here, discussion of the artist's chosen painting style-one that has been referred to as a `hyperrealism'-is integrated with the central street's history, the capital's famous literary figures, and its filmic representations, setting up the philosophical perspective toward which the book gradually develops. Chapter two rises in altitude to focus on Madrid desde Torres Blancas, an urban image painted from the vantage point provided by an iconic high-rise in the north-central area of the city. Discussion of the Spanish capital's northward expansion complements a broad view of the artist's push into representations of landscape and allows for the exploration of themes such as political conflict, social inequality, and the accelerated cultural change of an increasingly mobile nation during the 1960s. Chapter three views Madrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas and signals a turn toward political philosophy. Here, the size of the artist's image itself foregrounds questions of scale, which Fraser paints in broad strokes as he blends discussions of artistry with the turbulent history of one of Madrid's outlying districts and a continued focus on urban development and its literary and filmic resonance. Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds also includes an artist timeline, a concise introduction and an epilogue centering on the artist's role in the Spanish film El sol del membrillo. The book's clear style and comprehensive endnotes make it appropriate for both general readers and specialists alike.
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• Contents List of Illustrations Note on Translations Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction: Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds OneGran Via (1974-1981) TwoMadrid desde Torres Blancas (1974-1982) ThreeMadrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas (1990-2006) Epilogue: El sol del membrillo (1992) Bibliography About the Author Index.
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Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio Lopez has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urban scenes-but it is urban time that is his real subject. Going far beyond mere artist biography, Benjamin Fraser explores the relevance of multiple disciplines to an understanding of the painter's large-scale canvasses. Weaving selected images together with their urban referents-and without ever straying too far from discussion of the painter's oeuvre, method and reception by critics-Fraser pulls from disciplines as varied as philosophy, history, Spanish literature and film, cultural studies, urban geography, architecture, and city planning in his analyses. The book begins at ground level with one of the artist's most recognizable images, the Gran Via, which captures the urban project that sought to establish Madrid as an emblem of modernity. Here, discussion of the artist's chosen painting style-one that has been referred to as a `hyperrealism'-is integrated with the central street's history, the capital's famous literary figures, and its filmic representations, setting up the philosophical perspective toward which the book gradually develops. Chapter two rises in altitude to focus on Madrid desde Torres Blancas, an urban image painted from the vantage point provided by an iconic high-rise in the north-central area of the city. Discussion of the Spanish capital's northward expansion complements a broad view of the artist's push into representations of landscape and allows for the exploration of themes such as political conflict, social inequality, and the accelerated cultural change of an increasingly mobile nation during the 1960s. Chapter three views Madrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas and signals a turn toward political philosophy. Here, the size of the artist's image itself foregrounds questions of scale, which Fraser paints in broad strokes as he blends discussions of artistry with the turbulent history of one of Madrid's outlying districts and a continued focus on urban development and its literary and filmic resonance. Antonio Lopez Garcia's Everyday Urban Worlds also includes an artist timeline, a concise introduction and an epilogue centering on the artist's role in the Spanish film El sol del membrillo. The book's clear style and comprehensive endnotes make it appropriate for both general readers and specialists alike.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1 Filming Down Syndrome Yo, tambien (2009) and the Political Project of Disability Studies Deciphering the Mixed Messages of Leon y Olvido (2004)
• 2 Envisioning Autism Miguel Gallardo's Comic Maria y yo (2007) Felix Fernandez de Castro's Documentary Maria y yo (2010)
• 3 Narrating Childhood Disability Salvador Garcia Jimenez's Novel Angelicomio (1981) Marius Serra's Autobiographical Novel Quieto (2008)
• 4 Documenting Cognitive Disability ?Que tienes debajo del sombrero? (2006), by Lola Barrera and Inaki Penafiel Mas alla del espejo (2007), by Joaquin Jorda Epilogue: Exhibiting Art `Trazos Singulares' (2011) at the Nuevos Ministerios Metro Station `Supergestor' (2011) and Other Comics by the Grupo AMAS Associacion Argadini's Literary Contests (2008-2010) References Index.
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Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. Fraser is just as comfortable with the work of disability theorists who advocate a social model of disability (such as Lennard J. Davis, Licia Carlson, Eva Feder Kittay, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder and more) as he is with the analysis of film and literature in the Spanish context. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more. The book is directed, also, toward those readers more familiar with the growing field of Disability Studies itself-making the argument that the specific case of Spanish culture and society speaks to shifts in the social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability more broadly considered. An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.
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• Introduction: Juan Benet and the limits of existing criticism
• The Spanish Civil war and beyond: the spatial question
• The civil engineer and the author: hydraulic works, water, and literature
• Juan Benet's Bergsonism: time, memory, and knowledge
• Cultural geography: landscapes, maps, and space
• Epilogue: the role of enigma.

• Introduction Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding Part I. Speed and Vision Chapter 1: Cultures of Speed and Conservative Modernity: Representations of Speed in Britain's Railway Marketing Colin Divall & Hiroki Shin Chapter 2: The Speed of Signs: Train Graffiti, Cultural Production and the Mobility of the Urban in France and Spain Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding Part II. On Passengers Chapter 3: 'What to Wear and Where to Go': Picturing the Modern Consumer on the Great Western Railway 1921-39 Alexander Medcalf Chapter 4: Seen from a Carriage: A Rhythmanalytic Study of Train Travel and Mediation Rowan Wilken Part III. City Networks Chapter 5: Urban Railways, Industrial Infrastructure and the Paris Cityscape, 1870-1914 Peter Soppelsa Chapter 6: Subways and Cell Phones: Seoul as a Network City
• Samuel Gerald Collins Part IV. Inside the Station Chapter 7: Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Train Station Architecture Agata Morka Chapter 8: Digging Madrid: A Descent into Madrid's Subway Museum, 'Anden 0 [Platform] 0' Araceli Masterson-Algar Part V. Shifting States Chapter 9: Trains, Modernity, and State-Formation in Meiji Japan Tristan R. Grunow Chapter 10: 'The Super-Express of Our Dreams' and Other Mythologies about Postwar Japan Hiraku Shimoda Notes on Contributors Index.
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Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails.".
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Henri Lefebvre and the City
• Chapter 1: The Birth of the Modern Urban Critic (Larra vs. Mesonero Romanos)
• Chapter 2: The Living City (From Cerda to Martin-Santos)
• Chapter 3: Traversing the City (From Millas to Delgado Ruiz)
• Chapter 4: Visualizing the Mediterranean (From Goytisolo to the Videogame) Conclusion Notes References Index.
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Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of the city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products-from urban plans and short writing on the urban experience during the nineteenth century to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the twentieth century, pushing on to interrogate even the appearance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent video games.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Henri Lefebvre and the City
• Chapter 1: The Birth of the Modern Urban Critic (Larra vs. Mesonero Romanos)
• Chapter 2: The Living City (From Cerda to Martin-Santos)
• Chapter 3: Traversing the City (From Millas to Delgado Ruiz)
• Chapter 4: Visualizing the Mediterranean (From Goytisolo to the Videogame) Conclusion Notes References Index.
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An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies, ' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thoughts on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of the city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products-from urban plans and short writings on the urban experience during the nineteenth century by Mariano Jose de Larra, Ramon de Mesonero Ramanos, and Ildefons Cerda to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the twentieth by Luis Martin-Santos, Juan Jose Millas, Juan Goytisolo, and Manuel Delgado Ruiz. He pushes on to interrogate even the appearance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent video games. Working through the direct and indirect resonance of the French philosopher's legacy in Spain, a comprehensive first chapter grounds the reader in the key concepts of Lefebvre's urban theory that are explored throughout the book-his critiques of static space, modern urban planning, knowledge, alienation in everyday life and his emphasis on a method that underscores the importance of movement and rhythm. Fraser compellingly shows how each of these aspects of Lefebvre's work relates to the others, just as he ties together canonical and non-traditional cultural products from Madrid and Barcelona.
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Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural products from urban plans and short writing on the urban expereince during the nineteenth century to urban theories, cultural practices and literary fiction of the twentieth century, pushing on to interrogate even te apperance of Mediterranean space and Barcelona in recent videogames.".
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• Introduction : Bergson(ism) in Spain
• The Spanish novel. Pío Baroja : medicine and mysticism
• Miguel de Unamuno : against abstract philosophy
• Juan Benet : recalibrating space and time in región
• Belén Gopegui : mental and cartographic space
• Film studies. From Bergson to Deleuze : duration and multiplicity in two Spanish films
• Film as the redemption of reality : the importance of iconicity/indexicality
• Carlos Saura's Taxi : reconciling filmspace and urban space
• Urban theory. From Bergson to Lefebvre : toward a philosophy of the urban
• Manuel Delgado Ruiz : theorizing the living city
• Conclusion.

• Introduction : Bergson(ism) in Spain
• The Spanish novel. Pío Baroja : medicine and mysticism
• Miguel de Unamuno : against abstract philosophy
• Juan Benet : recalibrating space and time in región
• Belén Gopegui : mental and cartographic space
• Film studies. From Bergson to Deleuze : duration and multiplicity in two Spanish films
• Film as the redemption of reality : the importance of iconicity/indexicality
• Carlos Saura's Taxi : reconciling filmspace and urban space
• Urban theory. From Bergson to Lefebvre : toward a philosophy of the urban
• Manuel Delgado Ruiz : theorizing the living city
• Conclusion.

Driven by a dual analysis, "Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain" looks at French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) in Spain--his more or less direct influence on Spanish letters--and also at Bergsonism in Spain--the more indirect resonance with his methodological posture--articulated through Spanish texts as well as theoretical approaches to film and urban space. Through this twin investigation, one part historical and the other part methodological, Benjamin Fraser seeks to broaden the scope of interest in Bergson's philosophy, to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of Bergson's thought, and to insist upon the relevance of Bergson's methodological premise to two of the most important cultural studies disciplines today--film studies and urban geography. Following an eclectic and interdisciplinary methodology that the French philosopher himself advocated, Fraser reconciles works by some of the most notable twentieth-century authors and critics with compelling aspects of Bergsonism. From novelists Pio Baroja, Miguel de Unamuno, Juan Benet and Belen Gopegui to filmmakers Victor Erice ("El sol del membrillo"), Alejandro Amenabar ("Abre los ojos") and Carlos Saura ("Taxi"), as well as urban theorists Henri Lefebvre and Manuel Delgado Ruiz, this work takes up philosopher Gilles Deleuze's call for a "return to Bergson, " pushing past the established boundaries of interdisciplinary to what lies beyond. Fans of Bergson from all disciplines will also be eager to read English translations of Bergson's lectures at the Ateneo in Madrid the 2nd and 6th of May 1916, included here as an appendix.
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• Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality, by Benjamin Fraser Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 'Beyond Forgiveness'? Lee Chang-dong's Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave, by Paul Petrovic Refusing Chromosomal Pairing: Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo mama, tambien (2009), by Michael Gill Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit!: Dyslexia in Bollywood's Taare Zameen Par (2007), by Sanjukta Ghosh Landscapes of Children: Picturing Disability in Bunuel's Los olvidados (1950), by Susan Antebi Fearful Reflections: Representations of Disability in Postwar Dutch Cinema (1973-2011), by Mitzi Waltz 'People Endure': The Function of Autism in Anton's Right Here (2012), by Jose Alaniz Displaying Autism: The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010), by Katherine Lashley More than the 'Other'? On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), by Petra Anders The Other Body: Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodovar (1988-2011), by Candace Skibba On the Road to Normalcy: European Road Movies and Disability (2002-2011), by Anna Grebe Re-envisioning Italy's 'New Man' in Bella non piangere! (1955), by Jennifer Griffiths 'Get Your Legs Back': Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism, by Susan Flynn Through the Disability Lens: Revisiting Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988), by Ken Junior Lipenga Homes Wretched and Wrecked: Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970), by James A. Wren Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House is Black (1964), by Rosa Holman Index.
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Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries - from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodovar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood - while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
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• Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disability Studies, World Cinema and the Cognitive Code of Reality, by Benjamin Fraser Global In(ter)dependent Disability Cinema: Targeting Ephemeral Domains of Belief and Cultivating Aficionados of the Body, by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 'Beyond Forgiveness'? Lee Chang-dong's Oasis (2002) and the Mobilisation of Disability Discourses in the Korean New Wave, by Paul Petrovic Refusing Chromosomal Pairing: Inclusion, Disabled Masculinity, Sexuality and Intimacy in Yo mama, tambien (2009), by Michael Gill Dunce! Duffer! Dimwit!: Dyslexia in Bollywood's Taare Zameen Par (2007), by Sanjukta Ghosh Landscapes of Children: Picturing Disability in Bunuel's Los olvidados (1950), by Susan Antebi Fearful Reflections: Representations of Disability in Postwar Dutch Cinema (1973-2011), by Mitzi Waltz 'People Endure': The Function of Autism in Anton's Right Here (2012), by Jose Alaniz Displaying Autism: The Thinking and Images of Temple Grandin (2010), by Katherine Lashley More than the 'Other'? On Four Tendencies Regarding the Representation of Disability in Contemporary German Film (2005-2010), by Petra Anders The Other Body: Psychiatric Disability and Pedro Almodovar (1988-2011), by Candace Skibba On the Road to Normalcy: European Road Movies and Disability (2002-2011), by Anna Grebe Re-envisioning Italy's 'New Man' in Bella non piangere! (1955), by Jennifer Griffiths 'Get Your Legs Back': Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism, by Susan Flynn Through the Disability Lens: Revisiting Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975) and Camp de Thiaroye (1988), by Ken Junior Lipenga Homes Wretched and Wrecked: Disability as Social Dis-ease in Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970), by James A. Wren Leprosy and the Dialectical Body in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House is Black (1964), by Rosa Holman Index.
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Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's coauthored essay on global disability-film festivals, the volume's content spans from 1950 to today, addressing socially disabling forces rendered visible in the representation of physical, developmental, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities. Essays emphasize well-known global figures, directors, and industries - from Temple Grandin to Pedro Almodovar, from Akira Kurosawa to Bollywood - while also shining a light on films from less frequently studied cultural locations such as those portrayed in the Iranian and Korean New Waves. Whether covering postwar Italy, postcolonial Senegal, or twenty-first century Russia, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, undergraduates, and general readers alike.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword: Urbanism as World Culture and Here Comes Everybody by Andy Merrifield Introduction: What Is Urban Culture? by Benjamin Fraser Part I. MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITY Chapter 1. The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice Les Roberts Chapter 2. Capital, Mobility and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando Leon de Aranoa's Barrio (1998) Malcolm Alan Compitello Part II. THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTS Chapter 3. Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in Jose Luis Guerin's Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007) Benjamin Fraser Chapter 4. Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir's La antena (2007) Benjamin Fraser Part III. CULTURES OF URBAN PROTEST Chapter 5. Psychoprotest: Derives of the Quebec Maple Spring Marc James Leger and Cayley Sorochan Chapter 6. The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students' `Happy and Wicked' Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969 Heather A. Vrana Part IV. THE HOUSING QUESTION Chapter 7. Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert Silverberg Jeff Hicks Chapter 8. Red Vienna, Class and the Common Kimberly DeFazio Part V. (INTER)NATIONALIZING THE URBAN Chapter 9. Urban Culture as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Sketch of the Uneven and Combined Transitional Development of Rural and Urban Modern Culture in Europe and Egypt Jelle Versieren and Brecht De Smet Chapter 10. The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and L.A.: Toward a Comparative History
• Manuel Yang, Takeshi Haraguchi, and Kazuya Sakurada Index Notes on Contributors.
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Marxism and Urban Culture takes a broad view of Marx's legacy and-largely in the spirit of Marxist urban geographers Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey-applies that legacy to cultural practices and products from across the globe. Cities explored include Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, and Vienna.
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• Curriculum vitae: Malcolm Alan Compitello
• How Malcolm Compitello discovered and explained Juan Benet / David K. Herzberger
• Hispanism's crisis and the Compitello generation / Michael Ugarte
• Materialism and enigma: from Juan Benet's "Syllabus" to Compitello's "Socio-poetic" methodology and cultural studies pedagogy / Benjamin Fraser
• Whereto now?: from mezzo to Messi, from Don Quijote to 2666 / Randolph Pope
• Madrid, de caput regni a capital nacional: toponomia y cultura conmemorativa de 1812 a 1840 / Edward Baker
• The spacial fix: censorship, public housing and the altered meaning of El inquilino / Susan Larson
• The neo-political latinoamericano, the question of form and matters of space / Shalisa Collins
• Novela negra, niveles de lectura y claves para su interpretación: espacio, memoria y desencanto en Grupo de noche de Juan Madrid / Agustín Cuadrado
• "La movida latina" y el NegOcio en AZCA 2000 / Araceli Masterson-Algar
• Chilenos en Barcelona: entre el deseo, lo (a)político y el olvido en 199 recetas para ser feliz / Vania Barraza Toledo
• El éxito de las coproducciones hispano-argentinas: Adolfo Aristarain cruzó el océano / Alberto Chamorro
• Tennessee Williams and Spanish literature: freedom in Camino real / Joseph V. Ricapito
• La Movida et al.: literary representations of cultural practices from the 1950s to the 1980s / William Sherzer
• Desdoblamiento y simulacro: fusión de sujeto y objecto en La escala de los mapas (1993) de Belén Gopegui / Sohyun Lee
• Tortura y locura en Londres es de cartón de Unai Elorriaga / Lourdes Gabikagojeaskoa
• La complicada "colonización" de señor Cayo: o el cuestionamiento de la modernidad / Nuria Morgado, Rolando Pérez
• Álex de la Iglesia as auteur?: seeming/being and identity / Thomas Deveny
• The devil in the details: urban space and the persistence of the sacred in El día de la bestia / Nathan Richardson
• Genre, space and the role of the individual in the films of Álex de la Iglesia / Susan Divine.

• Introduction Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding Part I. Race, Class, and Gender
• Chapter 1: Railroad Blues: Crossing the Tracks of Gender, Class and Race Inequities in the Blues and Ann Petry's The Street Claudia May
• Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers on the Railroad Beth Muellner Part II. Politics and Poetics
• Chapter 3: Technology Transfer, the Railway and Independence in Ousmane Sembene's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu Roxanna Curto
• Chapter 4: Futurist Trains: Aesthetics and Subjectivity in the Italian Avant-Garde Alessio Lerro Part III. Visual Cultures
• Chapter 5: Sublime Hieroglyphics: The Pacific Coast Views 1867-1872 of Carleton Watkins Scott Palmer
• Chapter 6: Modernity, Anxiety and the Development of a Popular Railway Landscape Aesthetic, 1809-1879 Matt Thompson Part IV. New Critical Transfers
• Chapter 7: Mapping Memory Through the Railway Network: Reconsidering Freud's Metaphors from the Project for a Scientific Psychology to Beyond the Pleasure Principle Claudie Massicotte
• Chapter 8: Killer Trains and Thrilling Travels: the Spectacle of Mobility in Zola and Proust Steven D. Spalding Part V. Economics and Power Chapter : Class and Counterfeiting during the Porfiriato: Gutierrez Najera's "The Streetcar Novel" Jose Eduardo Gonzalez
• Chapter 10: Train, Trestle, Ticker: Railroad and Region in Frank Norris's The Octopus and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and The Don Michael Velez.
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This volume delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud's psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods and traditions-from English and American to Mexican, West African, and European literary cultures.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)