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New Basque Gothic
Trauma, screen media and transnationalism
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Rebecca Wynne-Walsh
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
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eBook ISBN:
9781526181176
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526181176
Keywords for this book
accented cinema; animation; Basque Gothic; Basque identity; collective memory; cultural Others; cultural preservation; dubbing; Euskara; film festivals; Folklore; Heritage; multi-platform storytelling; oral traditions; regional screen studies; short filmmaking; social media; Spanish ‘national’ cinema; streaming; subtitling; transgenerational trauma; transmedia; transnationalism
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
