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Introduction: Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath

The articles collected in this Screen Arts issue arise from a conference — Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath — held at the University of Manchester on 31 March and 1 April 2017 and supported by the British Academy. The conference set out to explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media had responded to the economic crisis dating back to 2007–2008 in Spain, not so much with the luxury of hindsight as in the awareness of a still ongoing process of economic and social attrition bringing new forms of precariousness to bear on citizens and seeing ever more transformation in Spanish film production, distribution and audiences. Many of the papers, and the discussions around them, focused on such immediate material conditions as these; others explored historical precedents; and yet others sought to show how crisis and post-crisis have brought about a shift in the aesthetics of Spanish screen media and a renewed emphasis on innovative and experimental forms. Core to all was an engagement with the discourses and visual conceptualization of such matters as: the shortcomings of the state’s political projects before, during and after the crisis; the effects in Spain of neoliberalism and global capitalism, on communities and the physical conditions of individuals; austerity; activism; agendas for change; gender and precarity. A keynote lecture by Professor Uta Felten (Universit€at Leipzig) explored the emergence of an intergenerational and intermedial network of new ‘Women’s Cinema’ in Spain — an alternative historical account of the torn social fabric and devastated lives of the micro-era; and the interactions of gender, genre, temporality were constant reference points in the conference’s formal and informal discussions. In a second keynote session, filmmaker and video-artist Juanma Carrillo presented a collage of his work over the past decade, marked by the image of the vulnerable body (and the vulnerable heart) and