Acknowledgments Section I: Key Questions and Possible Approaches 1. Comfort and Domestic Space in Spain Since 1900: What Does It Mean to Be at Home?Susan Larson 2. “By Which Ritual Was Our House Erected”? Comfort and Domestic Space in Spain in the Modern PeriodCarlos Sambricio Section II: The Real and Imagined Spaces of the Living Room, Kitchen, Bath, and Bedroom 3. The Living Room and the Public Rise of the Private Human Condition  Davide Borrelli 4. The Multi-Media Meanings of the Modern KitchenAnna Giannetti 5. From Social Cult to Personal Well-Being: The Real and Cinematic Bathroom at the Centre of the Domestic ProjectFrancesca Castanò 6. Inside the Bedroom: Between Constraint and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century Cinema and ArchitectureChristine Fontaine Section III: Comfort and Domestic Space in Spanish Popular Culture (1896–1960) 7. A Brief History of Domestic Space in Early Spanish Cinema (1896–1939)Jorge Gorostiza 8. The Modernization and Mechanization of the Kitchen as a Female Space in Spanish Cinema, 1940–1960Alba Zarza-Arribas 9. From Functional Hygiene to Unattainable Sensuality: The Bathroom in Spanish Cinema and the Press during the Franco Regime, 1939–1960Josefina González Cubero 10. Together, Alone, and in the Same Place: The Cinematic Living Room in 1950s SpainAdam Winkel 11. Exposed Intimacies and Domestic Spaces: Bedrooms in Spanish Cinema, 1939–1960Ana Fernández Cebrián Section IV: Comfort and Domestic Space in Spanish Popular Culture Since 1960 12. What’s Cooking in Almodóvar’s Kitchens?Juan Deltell Pastor 13. Sensorial, Private, and Porous: The Bathroom as a Space of Regeneration in Post-Franco CinemaMarta Peris 14. Comfort with(out) Comfort: New Couches and Conflicting Values in the Late Franco ComedyJorge Pérez 15. Bedroom Fantasies: Filming Intimacy in 1960s SpainJuan Egea Epilogue 16. “Qué casa tan … acogedora”: Gendering Comfort and Domestic Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s ?Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! (1984) Sally Faulkner ContributorsIndex