Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Leeds, in collaboration with the Durham University, introduces the second edition of “Ex Libris: Publications in Hispanic Studies”, coordinated by Professor H. Rosi Song (Durham University), to promote new publications about Hispanic Studies.

First session: Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media: Theater, Cinema, Television, Streaming by Paul Julian Smith.

This book offers a new perspective via the visual culture of the reimagining of history for contemporary Spanish media audiences. It gives close readings of major recent texts in a number of media (theatre, cinema, television, and streaming) that have yet to receive scholarly attention and are closely connected to each other. And it stresses the intermodality of the visual by calling attention to connections between those media and others, such as painting. From Picasso to the Javis and from the classic serial to Netflix, this book shows how Spanish history is radically reimagined through recent visual culture.