Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Section I Key Questions and Possible Approaches
5. 1 Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain: What Does It Mean to Be at Home? 1
6. 2 “By Which Ritual Was the House of Our Life Erected”? 29
7. Section II The Real and Imagined Spaces of the Living Room, Kitchen, Bath, and Bedroom
8. 3 The Living Room and the Public Rise of the Private Human Condition 63
9. 4 The Multimedia Meanings of the Modern Kitchen 79
10. 5 From Social Cult to Personal Well-Being: The Real and the Cinematic Bathroom at the Centre of the Domestic Project 98
11. 6 Inside the Bedroom: Between Constraint and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century Cinema and Architecture 117
12. Section III Comfort and Domestic Space in Spanish Popular Culture, 1896–1960
13. 7 A Brief History of Domestic Space in Early Spanish Cinema, 1896–1939 139
14. 8 The Modernization and Mechanization of the Kitchen as a Female Space in Spanish Cinema, 1940–1960 164
15. 9 From Functional Hygiene to Unattainable Sensuality: The Bathroom in Spanish Cinema and the Press during the Franco Regime, 1939–1960 186
16. 10 Together, Alone, and in the Same Place: The Cinematic Living Room in 1950s Spain 215
17. 11 Exposed Intimacies and Domestic Spaces: Bedrooms in Spanish Cinema, 1939–1960 233
18. Section IV Comfort and Domestic Space in Spanish Popular Culture since 1960
19. 12 What’s Cooking in Almodóvar’s Kitchens? 251
20. 13 Sensorial, Private, and Porous: The Bathroom as a Space of Regeneration in Post-Franco Cinema 272
21. 14 Comfort with(out) Comfort: New Couches and Conflicting Values in the Late Franco Comedy 290
22. 15 Bedroom Fantasies: Filming Intimacy in 1960s Spain 308
23. Epilogue
24. 16 “Qué casa tan … acogedora”: Gendering Comfort and Domestic Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! 329
25. Contributors 341
26. Index 347
27. Toronto Iberic 375