Comfort and domestic space in modern Spain /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Larson, Susan, 1968- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2024]
Series:	Toronto Iberic ; 91.
Subjects:	Domestic space > Spain. Human comfort > Spain. Dwellings > Spain. Domestic space in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Spain. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
SECTION I Key Questions and Possible Approaches
1 Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain: What Does It Mean to Be at Home?
2 "By Which Ritual Was the House of Our Life Erected"?
SECTION II The Real and Imagined Spaces of the Living Room, Kitchen, Bath, and Bedroom
3 The Living Room and the Public Rise of the Private Human Condition
4 The Multimedia Meanings of the Modern Kitchen
5 From Social Cult to Personal Well-Being: The Real and the Cinematic Bathroom at the Centre of the Domestic Project
6 Inside the Bedroom: Between Constraint and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century Cinema and Architecture
SECTION III Comfort and Domestic Space in Spanish Popular Culture, 1896-1960
7 A Brief History of Domestic Space in Early Spanish Cinema, 1896-1939
8 The Modernization and Mechanization of the Kitchen as a Female Space in Spanish Cinema, 1940-1960
9 From Functional Hygiene to Unattainable Sensuality: The Bathroom in Spanish Cinema and the Press during the Franco Regime, 1939-1960
10 Together, Alone, and in the Same Place: The Cinematic Living Room in 1950s Spain
11 Exposed Intimacies and Domestic Spaces: Bedrooms in Spanish Cinema, 1939-1960
SECTION IV Comfort and Domestic Space in Spanish Popular Culture since 1960
12 What's Cooking in Almodóvar's Kitchens?
13 Sensorial, Private, and Porous: The Bathroom as a Space of Regeneration in Post-Franco Cinema
14 Comfort with(out) Comfort: New Couches and Conflicting Values in the Late Franco Comedy
15 Bedroom Fantasies: Filming Intimacy in 1960s Spain
Epilogue
16 "Qué casa tan ... acogedora": Gendering Comfort and Domestic Space in Pedro Almodóvar's ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!
Contributors
Index
Series List