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New Basque Gothic

by Rebecca Wynne-Walsh

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Performing Arts / Film / History & CriticismPerforming Arts / Television / History & CriticismFiction / GothicPerforming Arts / Film / GeneralPerforming Arts / Television / General

Description

This monograph addresses the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Autonomous Basque Community, Euskadi, in Northern Spain. The book focuses on online video sharing, streaming and social media platforms, demonstrating the impact of multi-national co-production and distribution on the development of Basque film production; looking to the future of regional production in the digital era. This monograph fills a critical gap, presenting Basque Gothic screen media as a regionalist challenge to national models of cinema and identity. Wynne-Walsh establishes Basque Gothic as an expression of transgenerational trauma engendered by a history of state-suppression and socio-political violence. This regional iteration of the mode is addressed as a window into community perception and projection. While this project centres a Basque case study, it establishes a model for the reimagination of critical approaches to global, twenty-first century screen cultures.

Book Details

Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Published:
2025-12-02
Pages:
264
Language:
EN
ISBN:
9781526181169