Parados and paralizados: portraits of unemployment in post-2008 Spanish cinema
Parados and paralizados: portraits of unemployment in post-2008 Spanish cinema
College of Arts School of Modern Languages and Cultures Stirling Maxwell Centre
Date: Tuesday 07 February 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Raquel Martínez Martín (University of Strathclyde)
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/resschol/clust-centr/smc/
Document: Parados and Paralizados Poster
Raquel Martínez Martín analyses how post-2008 films adopt visual (im)mobility to highlight the paralysing effects of long-term unemployment in Spain. This presentation discusses the way in which As Luck Would Have It (Álex de la Iglesia, 2011) visually reproduces the associations between el paro (unemployment) and the paralysed body of the protagonist in the post-crisis context of recession and austerity.