Cubierta del libro con el cuadro Lavabo y espejo, pintado por Antonio López en 1967 |
Ya he mencionado a la doctora Larson en este blog, porque también coordinó otro libro, Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film, publicado el 2022 en Chicago, en el que aparece otro artículo mío, «Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films».
Entonces escribí que ese libro «no se hubiera editado sin el esfuerzo de la doctora Susan Larson, que lo ideó y se ocupó de coordinarlo minuciosamente», lo que también es completamente cierto aplicado al libro que acaba de publicarse.
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain reúne dieciséis artículos y creo que es interesante reproducir su índice, porque así se pueden comprobar las intenciones y el alcance de un volumen tan ambicioso e innovador:
SECCIÓN I. KEY QUESTIONS AND POSSIBLE APPROACHES
1. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain: What Does It Mean to Be at Home?
Susan Larson
2. “By Which Ritual Was the House of Our Life Erected”? Carlos Sambricio
SECCIÓN II. THE REAL AND IMAGINED SPACES OF THE LIVING ROOM, KITCHEN, BATH AMD BATHROOM
3. The Living Room and the Public Rise of the Private Human Condition. Davide Borrelli
4. The Multimedia Meanings of the Modern Kitchen. Anna Giannetti
5. From Social Cult to Personal Well-Being: The Real and the Cinematic Bathroom at the Centre of the Domestic Project. Francesca Castanò
6. Inside the Bedroom: Between Constraint and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century Cinema and Architecture. Christine Fontaine
SECCIÓN III. COMFORT AND DOMESTIC SPACE IN SPANISH POPULAR CULTURE, 1896–1960
7. A Brief History of Domestic Space in Early Spanish Cinema, 1896–1939. Jorge Gorostiza
8. The Modernization and Mechanization of the Kitchen as a Female Space in Spanish Cinema, 1940–1960. Alba Zarza-Arribas
9. From Functional Hygiene to Unattainable Sensuality: The Bathroom in Spanish Cinema and the Press during the Franco Regime, 1939–1960. Josefina González Cubero
10. Together, Alone, and in the Same Place: The Cinematic Living Room in 1950s Spain. Adam L. Winkel
11. Exposed Intimacies and Domestic Spaces: Bedrooms in Spanish Cinema, 1939–1960. Ana Fernández-Cebrián
SECCIÓN IV. COMFORT AND DOMESTIC SPACE IN SPANISH POPULAR CULTURE SINCE 1960
12. What’s Cooking in Almodóvar’s Kitchens? Juan Deltell Pastor
13. Sensorial, Private, and Porous: The Bathroom as a Space of Regeneration in Post-Franco Cinema. Marta Peris
14. Comfort with(out) Comfort: New Couches and Conflicting Values in the Late Franco Comedy. Jorge Pérez
15. Bedroom Fantasies: Filming Intimacy in 1960s Spain. Juan F. Egea
EPÍLOGO.
16. “Qué casa tan… acogedora”: Gendering Comfort and Domestic Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! Sally Faulkner
Como otras veces en este blog, por si pudiera interesarle a alguien, copio el principio de mi artículo:
In film characters are surrounded by spaces, furniture, and other objects that work together as fundamental elements driving the plot forward. They provide precise information about the characters’ personal traits as well as the social environments in which they are embedded. The choice and use of the environments, furnishings, and props in Spanish films during the first decades of the twentieth century are windows to the ideas that were in place about architecture, interior space, and the emerging concept of comfort.1
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