Looking at interactions between three media in contemporary Spain, Smith (Hispanic languages and literatures, City U. of New York-Graduate Center) addresses the linked issues of history and memory, authority and society, and genre and transitivity as well as more traditional matters such as the representation of gender, sexuality, and transnationalism. Among his topics are resuscitating Franco in popular narrative and television, the audiovisual transition, Spanish cinema's missing children, cinema and television on ethnicity and immigration, re-visions of Teresa, and traveling narratives and transitional life strategies. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)