Spanish Cinema Between Millennia (1990-2010)

The Spain located between the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st is a country that comes out socialist governments, with the disenchantment of the end of the welfare state, which came not to stay. That moment of turning towards the government of President José María Aznar, followed by the Rodríguez Zapatero stage, make up two decades of progressive modification of an apparent solid country, derived towards the economic and social crisis marked by the return to government of PP and the 15M movement. Cinema, as a product of the society from which it is nourished and to which it returns messages, reflects or flees from these realities. This stage of Spanish cinema, close but not enough to not have an analytical perspective on it, also presents a series of characteristics worthy of monograph, socially, aesthetically and commercially focusable. These are the following lines of research at this stage of our cinema:

- New aesthetics beyond postmodernity. Shy realism.

- Review of the recent past: nostalgia and historical memory

- New authors cinema

- Rebirth of the documentary

- Animation development

- New generations of female directors

- Renewal and hybridization of film genres

- Built-in themes and repeat themes

- New character profiles

- Actresses and actors

- New modes of production

- New distribution models

- New relationship with viewers in the multi-screen era

- Internationalization in and out

This monograph aims to resituate a “hinge” era that collects and recycles the Spanish cinematographic universe from one stage, preparing it for the next, in which we are.