Lexington Books
Pages: 196
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-2165-9 • Hardback • December 2015 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
978-1-4985-2166-6 • eBook • December 2015 • $92.00 • (£71.00)
David Walton is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Murcia.
Juan A. Suárez teaches American studies at the University of Murcia.
Introduction: Culture, Space and Power: Blurred Lines
Juan Antonio Suárez and David Walton
PART ONE
Reading urban and national space
1 Place, Space and the Politics of Memory
Chris Weedon
2 Queer Space and Cultural Memory in the Films of Barbara Hammer, Katrina Del Mar, and Fadia Abboud
Juan A Suárez
3 Blinking Spaces: Koyaanisqatsi’s Cinematic City
Iván Villarmea Álvarez
4 The Immaterial Factory and the Metropolitan Body: Toni Negri, Rem Koolhaas, and the Sociology of Associations
Miguel Mesa del Castillo Clavel
5 Land as a Space for Discursive Loyalty: On the Public Sphere and Immobility during China’s Modernization
G. Kentak Son
6 Se los comió el norte: Space, Globalization and Latino Art as Strategy of Resistance
Juan A. Tarancón
7 Music, Body, and City: Joy Division’s Positive Negative Space
J. Rubén Valdés Miyares
PART TWO
Reading spaces of intimacy
8 Mediatized Spaces of Intimacy
John Storey
9 Queering Prison Space in HBO’s Oz
Cornelia Wächter
10 The Home as a Rough Habitat in The Wire
Elisa Hernández
11 Cosmopolitan Space and Generic Boundaries in Hollywood Overseas Romances
Manuela Ruiz
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
“An impressive and wide-ranging set of international essays interrogating the idea and experience of space from theoretical, media, and cultural perspectives. An insistent consideration of questions of power and (geo-)politics informs all readings. Highly recommended.”
— George McKay, University of East Anglia