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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 22, Issue 1, 2009
Volume 22, Issue 1, 2009
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Public service radio facing the new competitive environment in Catalonia
Authors: Montse Bonet and David Fernndez-QuijadaThe European digitization and technological convergence process has served to deepen the crisis that all public broadcasters have been experiencing in Europe over the last 20 years. Yet, when the transition to digital broadcasting is discussed, this has mainly referred to the medium of television. Radio on the other hand, a medium with greater capillarity (in the sense of having deeper local roots and networks), has been dealing with its own crisis. This article outlines the main characteristics and problems of public service radio in Catalonia, arising from a study carried out on its structure and the programming it offers.
1 1This research was commissioned by the General Secretary for Media in the Department of Culture and Media of the Catalan Autonomous Government, the Generalitat de Catalunya, passed on to the authors via the Institut de la Comunicaci (InCom, Communication Institute) of the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB, Autonomous University of Barcelona).
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Espacios vedados y hroes desvalidos: La nia de luto y el cine espaol de los aos sesenta
More LessForbidden spaces and helpless heroes: The Girl in Mourning and 1960s Spanish cinema examines Manuel Summers' second film, La nia de luto, released in 1964. It argues that Summers' popular narrative frame goes beyond its apparent tipismo (typical story in picturesque settings) to present its viewers with the angst of youth. Through a humorous portrait of life in an Andalusian village, Summers reveals the lack of personal freedom and choice experienced by young people during the sixties in Francoist Spain, as well as the constraining social forces around them.
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Amrica en Sevilla: la materializacin del espritu neoimperial en la Exposicin Iberoamericana de 1929
By Ana SoutoThis article considers the representation of the relationships between Spain and its former colonies at the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville in 1929. The analysis provides two main arguments. First, it will be argued that the styles of the Plaza de Amrica named neoplateresque, neomudejar and neogthic were chosen to stand for a new form of imperialism based on a Hispanoamerican identity, with Spain once again as the leader, although this time spiritual rather than political. Second, the article discusses how this neo-imperialist spirit was reinforced by the pavilions of the Latin American countries by underlining the common cultural elements with Spain based on language, religion and the cultural idea of race, by creating buildings in the colonial baroque style, either in a neo-colonial or neomestizo way, thereby stating their affiliation to the pan-hispanist spirit.
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St. James the Moor-slayer, a new challenge to Spanish national discourse in the twenty-first century
More LessThe arguments presented on the following pages will explore the debate that revolves around the relationship between St. James (Santiago, patron saint of Spain) and Spanish contemporary political discourses. The author critiques appropriations and re-enactments of St. James made by the dominant hegemonic practices while focusing on the recent polemic surrounding the removal of the statue of the Moor-slayer (Santiago Matamoros) from the entrance to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. This timely debate could potentially lead to a new critical view of postmodern appropriations of medieval iconology, as it argues that hegemonic discourses in Spain emphasize particular narratives, both discursive or symbolic in form, in order to relegate others to oblivion.
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The head of all the nurses
More LessThe chaos and disruption of warfare makes exceedingly heavy demands on those responsible for organizing hospital care for the wounded. A most unlikely context in which to find a nurse worthy to be regarded as following in the tradition of Florence Nightingale is General Franco's victorious Nationalist army in the Spanish Civil War. The name of Mercedes Mil Nolla is unknown outside Spain and no longer well-known in her own country, but her contributions to hospital design, administration and nurse training were considerable, particularly considering the perils which she personally had to overcome in the turmoil of that dreadful conflict. Unlike Florence Nightingale, she has left nothing in the way of written work, but her life was almost as extraordinary, and lived in equally extraordinary times. Possibly a little severe in character, she nevertheless professed an admirably humane attitude to military medical care.
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