ABOUT THIS BOOK

This volume explores the intersection between theories of the modern spectaclefrom Jose Antonio Maravall's conceptualization of the spectacular culture of the baroque to the Frankfurt School's theorization of mass culture, to Baudrillard's notion of the simulacrum, to Guy Debord's understanding of the society of the spectacleand the findings of the emerging fields of urban studies, landscape studies, and, generally speaking, studies of space.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Bradley J. Nelson is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics at Concordia University in Montreal.

David R. Castillo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.

REVIEWS

"This volume is ambitious, wide-ranging, and framed in a way that makes it a lasting contribution to the field of Hispanic Cultural Geography."
--Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos— -

"...a very productive interdisciplinary analysis which will be helpful for readers interested in the construction of modern cultural identities."
--Iberoamericana— -

"This volume is ambitious, wide-ranging, and framed in a way that makes it a lasting contribution to the field of Hispanic Cultural Geography."
--Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos— -

"...a very productive interdisciplinary analysis which will be helpful for readers interested in the construction of modern cultural identities."
--Iberoamericana— -

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Introduction: Modern Scenes/Modern Sceneries

I. Foundational Landscapes

1. Monumental Landscapes in the Society of the Spectacle: From Fuenteovejuna to New York

2. "Granada": Race and Place in Early Modern Spain

3. Agi Morato's Garden as Heterotopian Place in Cervantes's Los banos de Argel

4. Signs of the Times: Emblems of Baroque Science Fiction

5. "The Knowledge of This People": Mapping a Global Consciousness in Catalonia (1375-2009)

II. Modern(ist) Sceneries

6. Topofilia Portena: Imaging Buenos Aires and Modernity in (and around) the Journal Sur

7. Horacio Coppola: The Photographer's Urban Fervor

8. Seeing "Spain" at the 1893 Chicago World (Columbian) Exhibition

9. Exhausted Cosmopolitanism in Zamacois's Memorias de un vagon de ferrocarril

III. National Panoramas

10. Cultural Landscapes: Luis Cernuda's Exiled Poetry

11. Francoist Spaces: Un hombre va por el camino (Manuel Mur Oti, 1948) and Surcos (Jose Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951)

12. The Spectacle of a National Trauma: Gaze, Space, National Identity, and Historical Memory in Democratic Spain

Afterword

Contributors

Index