Wild treasures and natural families: wildlife film and the enactment of a new Spanish national Nature in Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente's El hombre y la Tierra: Fauna ibérica (1975–1981).
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente's immensely popular wildlife film series Fauna ibérica (1975–1981) has been credited with having transformed Spaniards' attitudes toward Iberian wildlife. In this article, I show how Fauna ibérica materially enacted the abstract idea of a modern "national Nature" by forg...
| Published in: | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 461 - 482 |
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