Full Description
While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied' viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.
By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories. Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest, concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The projects variously explore different media - including film, sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba, mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands.
Offering a map of current and future research in the field, this book provides the first history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
Contents
Introduction 1. Notes on the Future (and Past) of Spanish and Latin-American Media Studies 2. Cinephilia and the Unrepresentable in Miguel Gomes' Tabu (2012) 3. Rethinking Spanish Visual Cultural Studies through an 'Untimely' Encounter with the Dance/Performance Art of La Ribot 4. History, Modernity and Atrocity in Mexican Visual Culture 5. The Disintegration of Spanish Cinema 6. Hispanism's Digital Turn 7. Visual British Hispanism and the Puerto del Rosario 'parque escultórico' Postscript: 'la travesía del desierto'
