An international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars examine the relationship between filmmaking – the seventh art – and the built environment. Contributions from scholars in the fields of film, architecture and urban studies. 82 b/w photographs

List of Figures  Acknowledgments Introduction Architecture, the Urban and the Critical Possibilities of Spanish Film Studies  Susan Larson   PART 1: ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN  1.Architecture, Urbanistic Ideology and the Poetic- AnalyticDocumentary Mode in Mercado de futuros (2011) by Mercedes Álvarez Benjamin Fraser 2.Establishing Shots as Urban Blueprints in Spanish Feature Films Jorge Gorostiza   PART 2: MOBILITY 3.The Rhythm of the Modern City: Traffic and Mobility in Spanish Film,1896– 1936  Nuria Rodríguez- Martín 4.Childhood Spectacle, Modernity and Madrid as a Dystopic City: LuisLucia’s Cerca de la ciudad (1952) David Foshee Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film Tom Whittaker   PART 3: SURFACE TENSIONS  6. An Archi- Texture of Pleasure: The Verbena, the Modistilla and the Mantón de Manila in Rosa de Madrid (1927)  Juli Highfill 7. Surface Tension and Utopian Underworlds: Orpheus and the Executioner in Luis García Berlanga’s El verdugo (1963)  Patricia Keller   PART 4: THE EVERYDAY  8. Mediating Everyday Life: Domestic Architecture in Spanish Film  Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas 9. Through the Looking Glass: Images of the Ordinary World in Oscar- Nominated Spanish Cinema  Emeterio Diez Puertas and María de Arana Aroca   PART 5: MEMORY AND THE MONUMENTAL  10. Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)?  Susan Larson and Carlos Sambricio 11. Madrid 1964: Icon of Modernity or City of Memory? A Look at the ‘Details’  Vicente Sánchez- Biosca 12. Making Madrid Plastic: Waste and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s Post- movida Films  Samuel Amago   PART 6: THE VIRTUAL  13. Uncanny Urbanism and Generational Shifts in Carlos Marques Marcet’s 10.000km and Anchor and Hope  Leigh Mercer 14. Dead to Capitalism: Zombified Territory and Junkie Spaces in Cabanyal Z, or How to Unleash Monstrous Creativity in the Urban  Stephen Luis Vilaseca Notes on Contributors  Index