Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously changing processes in which a variety of economic, social and cultural factors intervene. The book first analyzes the main horror trends emerging in the early 2000s, then approaches genre hybridization and the rise of new filmmakers since the 2010s with a special focus on gender issues and the reconfiguration of the past, before addressing the impact of streaming services within the Spanish film panorama, from a production and distribution standpoint. This book will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the areas of film studies, media studies, TV studies, horror, Spanish cultural studies and production studies.

Vicente Rodríguez Ortega is Tenure-Track Professor at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and member of the TECMERIN research group and Instituto Universitario del Cine Español-UC3M. He is the co-editor of Contemporary Spanish Cinema & Genre and has written over 20 academic articles and book chapters. He is the founding editor of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays. Rubén Romero Santos is Junior Lecturer at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and member of the TECMERIN research group and Instituto Universitario del Cine Español-UC3M. He is the author of El detective mutante (2020) and Barcelona en 12 películas (2022). He has been working as a film critic for almost two decades.

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Spanish Horror in the 21st Century 2. Early 2000s: Industrial Dynamics, Production Trends & Transnationalization 3. [Rec]: An International Franchise 4. Horror & Genre Hybridization 5. Horror & Gender 6. Horror & The Past 7. Horror & Streaming 8. Conclusions