The Barcelona reader : cultural readings of a city /

The Barcelona reader : cultural readings of a city /

"Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a selection of the best academic articles, w...

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Other Authors: Bou, Enric (Editor), Subirana, Jaume (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Catalan
Spanish
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
City planning > Spain > Barcelona.
Urban beautification > Spain > Barcelona.
Art and society > Spain > Barcelona.
Architecture and society > Spain > Barcelona.
Literature and society > Spain > Barcelona.
Spanish literature > Social aspects.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Barcelona (Spain) > Civilization.
Barcelona (Spain) > History.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Barcelona : cultural readings of a city / Enric Bou and Jaume Subirana
  • I. City, history, and territory. Barcelona : the siege city / Robert Davidson ; Barcelona as an adaptive ecology / Ferran Sagarra ; A present past, Barcelona street names, from Víctor Balaguer to Pasqual Maragall / Jaume Subirana ; 'The asylum of modern times' : Barcelona and Europe / Felipe Fernández-Armesto ; A fragile country / Colm Tóibín
  • II. City and society. Barcelona and modernity / Brad Epps ; Football and identities in Catalonia / Alejandro Quiroga ; The family and the city : power and the creation of cultural imagery / Gary Wray McDonogh ; Memory and the city in Barcelona's cemeteries / Elisa Martí-López
  • III. Art, architecture, and the city. Picasso among his fellows at 4 Gats : Beyond Modernisme? / Jordi Falgàs ; Gaudí : poet of stone, artistic hedgehog / Marià Marín i Torné ; El Poble Espanyol = El Pueblo Español (1929) / Jordana Mendelson
  • IV. The Olympics and the city. Barcelona : urban identity 1992-2002 / Donald McNeill ; From the Olympic torch to the Universal Forum of Cultures : the after-image of Barcelona's modernity / Joan Ramon Resina
  • V. Literature, cinema, and the city. La Gran Encisera : three odes to Barcelona, and a film / Josep Miquel Sobrer ; The deceptive dame : criminal revelations of the Catalan capital / Stewart King ; A Biutiful city : Alejandro González Iñárritu's filmic critique of the 'Barcelona model' / Benjamin Fraser.

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