Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema ambitiously maps cinematic spectatorship through the intermedial cultural histories of Spanish art. Rodríguez-Romaguera's readings richly explore self-reflexive artistic and film traditions through metaphors of veiled vision, trauma, spectrality, or dreaming. This book makes a significant contribution to film aesthetics and a compelling case for revisiting Spanish classic visual art and literature in dialogue with international cinema.

Belén Vidal, Reader in Film Studies, King's College London, UK, and author of Figuring the Past: Period Film and the Mannerist Aesthetic (2012)

Through the development of concepts such as the veiled screen, Rodriguez provides a fascinating reappraisal of visual theory and a reconsideration of the relationship between art, ideology, and the unconscious. The book's thorough and compelling intermedial analyses of film against works of meta-art demonstrate the possibilities of comparative reading and thinking.

Jacqueline Sheean, Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah, USA