Prime risks: the politics of pain and suffering in Spanish crisis cinema.
This essay analyzes recent Spanish cinema that addresses the economic crisis, taking particular note of the ways that physical vulnerability is utilized as a metaphor for political and social precarity. I focus on three films in particular in order to highlight the metaphors of contemporary vulnerab...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol. 15; no. 1/2; pp. 101 - 116 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar-Jun2014
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