Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain

Susan Larson is the Charles B. Qualia Endowed Chair of Romance Languages at Texas Tech University.

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 Period
Carlos 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 Kitchen
Anna Giannetti

5. From Social Cult to Personal Well-Being: The Real and Cinematic Bathroom at the Centre of the Domestic Project
Francesca Castanò

6. Inside the Bedroom: Between Constraint and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century Cinema and Architecture
Christine 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, 1940–1960
Alba Zarza-Arribas

9. From Functional Hygiene to Unattainable Sensuality: The Bathroom in Spanish Cinema and the Press during the Franco Regime, 1939–1960
Josefina González Cubero

10. Together, Alone, and in the Same Place: The Cinematic Living Room in 1950s Spain
Adam Winkel

11. Exposed Intimacies and Domestic Spaces: Bedrooms in Spanish Cinema, 1939–1960
Ana 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 Cinema
Marta Peris

14. Comfort with(out) Comfort: New Couches and Conflicting Values in the Late Franco Comedy
Jorge Pérez

15. Bedroom Fantasies: Filming Intimacy in 1960s Spain
Juan 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

Contributors
Index