New Basque Gothic : Trauma, Screen Media and Transnationalism

Wynne-Walsh, Rebecca

Manchester University Press（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526181183

Full Description

This monograph addresses the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Autonomous Basque Community, Euskadi, in Northern Spain. The book focuses on online video sharing, streaming and social media platforms, demonstrating the impact of multi-national co-production and distribution on the development of Basque film production; looking to the future of regional production in the digital era. This monograph fills a critical gap, presenting Basque Gothic screen media as a regionalist challenge to national models of cinema and identity. Wynne-Walsh establishes Basque Gothic as an expression of transgenerational trauma engendered by a history of state-suppression and socio-political violence. This regional iteration of the mode is addressed as a window into community perception and projection. While this project centres a Basque case study, it establishes a model for the reimagination of critical approaches to global, twenty-first century screen cultures.

Contents

Introduction: trauma, identity and Basque Gothic

Part I Memory and history
1 Contextualising memory and history in Basque Gothic screen media
2 Interrogating history
3 Interrogating trauma
4 Challenging memory narratives
5 Regional relationships with religion
6 The Basque witch

Part II Identity and language
7 Contextualising identity and language in Basque Gothic screen media
8 Adaptation and evolution
9 The land of the Basque speakers on the global stage
10 The sound of silence
11 Challenging the protagonism of ETA

Part III Space and place
12 Contextualising space and place in Basque Gothic screen media
13 Crossing intra- and extra-diegetic borders
14 Problematising the home
15 Transnational, trans-platform terrors

Conclusion: evolving towards a mutable, glocal future

Film appendix
Bibliography
Filmography