Cinema and visual arts

The subheading 'National/Regional Identity and the Arts' denotes the exploration and articulation of questions of national and regional identity via cultural forms such as cinema, poetry, theatre, visual arts, music etc.

Four papers were given in this section of the first Peripheral Identities conference :

Amaia Lamikiz (European University Institute, Florence): 'Putting Up the Shield or Stealing Their Sword? The 'Politics of Culture' of the francoist regime and the Basque 'Patriotic Work' During the 1960s' in National Identities, vol. 4, no. 3 (2002), pp. 291-306.

Xosé Rosales Sequeiros (University of Greenwich): 'Celtic Music and Identity in Galicia'

Jesús Soria (University of Northumbria at Newcastle): 'The Role of Popular Music in the Search for a Canarian National Identity.'

José V. Saval (University of Edinburgh): 'Arruza, Manolete, Verdi's Aida and the Latin American Boom: Periphery Vs Centre'