Following Franco - by Duncan Wheeler (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book interrogates the interrelationship between culture and politics during the Spanish transition to democracy. Drawing on both high and popular culture, it critically interrogates the stakes of the Transition and reveals how its consequences continue to inform political debate.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The transition to democracy that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 was once hailed as a model of political transformation. But since the 2008 financial crisis it has come under intense scrutiny. Today, a growing divide exists between advocates of the Transition and those who see it as the source of Spain's current socio-political bankruptcy. This book revisits the crucial period from 1962 to 1992, exposing the networks of art, media and power that drove the Transition and continue to underpin Spanish politics in the present. Drawing on rare archival materials and over three hundred interviews with politicians, artists, journalists and ordinary Spaniards, including former prime minister Felipe Gonzalez (1982-96), <i>Following Franco</i> unlocks the complex and often contradictory narratives surrounding the foundation of contemporary Spain.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy could hardly have been more tumultuous, with terrorism, military subversion and political chicanery in abundance. Duncan Wheeler's fascinating, utterly original and endlessly entertaining book is one of the best introductions imaginable to a story as murky as it is uplifting.' <b>Professor Sir Paul Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science</b> 'Studies of 1960s, '70s, and '80s Spain rarely invoke the swinging 60s, the me decade or the decade of greed. Duncan Wheeler takes the reader on a fun-driven journey through the media- and gossip-scapes of these transformative years, leaving no cultural icon unturned.' <b>Professor Eugenia Afinoguénova, Marquette University</b> '<i>Following Franco</i> takes the reader on an exciting journey through Spanish culture and politics that reaches back to Francoism and beyond. Duncan Wheeler gives an enriching and comprehensive account that allows us to understand the idiosyncrasies of contemporary Spain.' <b>Professor Manuel Palacio, University Carlos III of Madrid</b> Spain faces many challenges in the twenty-first century. Disillusionment with the two mainstream parties has resulted in the emergence of radical political start-ups Podemos and Vox, while the 2017 referendum on Catalan independence marked the country's worst constitutional crisis since 1981, when members of the Guardia Civil entered parliament and held democracy to ransom. In this bold and far-reaching study, Duncan Wheeler traces the roots of Spain's problems to the process of democratic transition following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Drawing on rare archival materials and over three hundred interviews with politicians, artists, journalists and ordinary Spaniards, including former prime minister Felipe Gonzalez (1982-96), he revisits the crucial decades of 1962 to 1992, exposing the networks of art, media and power that drove the Transition and continue to underpin Spanish politics today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'The years of Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy could hardly have been more tumultuous, with terrorism, military subversion and political chicanery in abundance. Duncan Wheeler's fascinating, utterly original and endlessly entertaining book is one of the best introductions imaginable to a story as murky as it is uplifting.' Sir Paul Preston, Director of Cañada Blanch Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science 'Studies of 1960s, '70s, and '80s Spain usually focus on its entrenched dictatorship and compromise-ridden transition to democracy and rarely invoke the swinging 60s, the me decade or the decade of greed. Yet there was in Spain no shortage of swinging, egotism or getting rich in the streets and homes, in the bullfighting arenas and on the soccer fields, on the popular press' pages and the screens of increasingly affordable TV sets. In <i>Following Franco</i>, Duncan Wheeler takes the reader on a fun-driven journey through the media- and gossip-scapes of these transformative years. In this fascinating book, he leaves no cultural icon unturned and his trove of facts, large and small, crafts a picture of a country's culture that was, after all, quite similar to that of its neighbours.' Eugenia Afinoguénova, Professor of Spanish Language and Cultural History, Marquette University 'Duncan Wheeler's excellent book offers a thorough study of post-Francoist Spain's cultural logics, from mass media to public policies, paying critical attention to celebrities as well as to art museums. It represents a savvy and well-researched panoramic account of a fascinating time.' Germán Labrador Méndez, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University '<i>Following Franco</i> takes the reader on an exciting journey through Spanish culture and politics that reaches back to Francoism and beyond: from the culture of the bull and bullfighters to the symbolic significance of <i>Guernica</i>, from Almodóvar to the Movida, from Olympic Barcelona to the centrifugal movements of Catalonia and the Basque Country, from the uses of censorship to the social role of television and the examples of musical counterculture. Duncan Wheeler gives an enriching and comprehensive account that allows us to understand the idiosyncrasies of contemporary Spain.' Manuel Palacio, Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, University Carlos III of Madrid<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Duncan Wheeler is Professor and Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds
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