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Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of aesthetic mastery and sensory pleasure. Looking beyo...

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Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, among his previous books is Iberian Cities, which he edited. Dieter Ingenschay is Professor of Hispanic Languages at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of several books in German.

Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. This timely volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrate the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting on the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian Studies.

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In its plurality of critical perspectives, Burning Darkness demonstrates the depth and breadth of the critical dialogue that Spanish film has generated over the last half century." -- Colleen P. Culleton

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Joan Ramon Resina is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. He is the author of a number of books, including El cad¿r en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del desencanto (1997) and El postnacionalisme en el mapa global (2004). Among his distinctions are the Fulbright Fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanich Films.

Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the "pact of oblivion, " which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those l...