Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film

1. Introduction: Spanish Crossroads—Affect and Belonging in the Democratic Era
Jesse Barker

2. No Place Like Home: Gabi Martínez’s Ático (Top-Floor Apartment) and Javier Calvo’s “Una Belleza Rusa” (A Russian Beauty)
Jesse Barker

3. History and Trauma at the Crossroads: Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) and Isabel Coixet’s The Secret Life of Words

Jesse Barker

4. Synthetic Skins: Mercedes Cebrián’s La nueva taxidermia (The New Taxidermy) and Pedro Almodóvar’s La piel que habito (The Skin I Live in)
Jesse Barker

5. Unraveling Cultures: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful and Najat El Hachmi’s L’ultim patriarca (The Last Patriarch)
Jesse Barker

6. Unsheltered: Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves(Snow White) and Jesús Carrasco’s Intemperie (Out in the Open)
Jesse Barker

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, European Cinema, European Literature, European Culture, Close Reading, Cultural Heritage