This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the ways in which cultural practices serve the purposes of identity formation. It introduces readers to a range of theoretical debates as well as informing them about specific areas of twentieth-century Spanish culture: ethnography, music, TV, advertising, popular literature, medical discourse, film, posters, museums, and urban development.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; 1. ENGAGING WITH GHOSTS; OR, THEORIZING CULTURE IN MODERN SPAIN ; 2. TRAVELS OF THE IMAGINARY SPANISH GYPSY ; 3. Elusive Song: Flamenco as Field and Passage for the Gitanos in Cordoba Prison ; 4. Parvati Nair 4. Ethnic and Racial Configurations in Contemporary Spanish Culture ; 5. Identities as a Distance: Markers of National Identity in the Video-Diaries of Second-Generation Spanish Migrants in London ; 6. MELODRAMATIC FEMINISM: THE POPULAR FICTION OF CARMEN DE BURGOS ; 7. Authoritarian Medicalization and Gynaephobia under Franco ; 8. Victoria Abril: The Sex Which Is Not One ; 9. Sex, Lies and Traditions: La Cubana's Teresina, S. A. ; 10. Not Writing Straight, but Not Writing Queer: Popular Castilian 'Gay' Fiction ; 11. FIESTA CULTURE IN MADRID POSTERS, 1934-1955 ; 12. Musical Battles: Populism and Hegemony in the Early Francoist Folkloric Film Musical ; 13. Alaska: Star of Stage and Screen and Optimistic Punk ; 14. Bagpipes and Digital Music: The Re-Mixing of Galician Identity ; 15. UNCANNY IDENTITY: VIOLENCE, GAZE, AND DESIRE IN CONTEMPORARY BASQUE CINEMA ; 16. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: High Art as Popular Culture ; 17. Barcelona's Magic Mirror: Narcissism or the Rediscovery of Public Space and Collective Identity? ; 18. Spanish Quality TV? The Periodistas Notebook ; INDEX

Review from other book by this author The authors include both established and young academics and the essays are readable and informative./Forum for Modern Language Studies 35 : 4 1999 `a challenge to Hispanists to broaden our perspectives and a practical aid in our everyday teaching and research ... a major contribution to resources for the study of twentieth-century Spain ... The editors are to be complimented on their thoughtful use of illustrations ... a brilliantly-conceived and well-executed volume which will no doubt be indispensable to all students, teachers and enthusiasts of Spanish culture.' Kathryn Crameri, JHR 4 (1995-1996) `I look forward to using this text; a book dealing so comprehensively with such a wide range of issues is well overdue.' Cathy Warshall, Staffordshire University `Because of the scope and quality of its approach this is a textbook which lays the foundations for Spanish Cultural Studies ... The volume is both informative and accessible and will become a key reference work for a large spectrum of curricular disciplines and comparative courses.' Tesserae `Because of the scope and quality of its approach this is a textbook which lays the foundations for Spanish Cultural Stuies and marks the entry of this discipline into a movement within the humanities long established in other academic departments and especially dominant in Latin-American studies. The volume is both informative and accessible and will become a key reference work for a large spectrum of curricular disciplines and comparative courses.' Xon De Ros, King's College, London, Tesserae 2 (1996) `the breadth of the fields and topics covered is to be applauded, for the book is in fact tightly structured ... The need for brevity in each article has forced a concise style upon the authors who have pared down and concentrated their material, which makes for a stimulating read. The book is enlivened by apt illustrations with useful explanatory captions, a good glossary and politico-cultural chronology. Altogether a must for the Reading List.' Monica Threlfall, Loughborough University, Journal of Area Studies 9: 1996

Jo Labanyi is Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton and Director of the Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her books include (ed. with Lou Charnon-Deutsch) Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (1995), (ed. with Helen Graham) Spanish Cultural Studies (1995), and Gender and Modernization in the Spanish Realist Novel (2000), all published by Oxford University Press.