Film, memory and the legacy of the Spanish Civil War : resistance and guerrilla, 1936-2010 / Mercedes Maroto Camino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camino, Mercedes Maroto.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

History.

War and motion pictures.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Motion pictures and the war.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Influence.

Motion pictures--Spain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Film Memory and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War reconstructs the legacy of the Spanish Civil War through an investigation of the anti-Franco guerrillas of the 1940s and 1950s. The book explores the memory of Spanish resistance fighters and their civilian supporters, concentrating on their cinematic representations in films and documentaries released between 1953 and 2010. This research fits within the emerging comparative field of Memory Studies, which has grown considerably in the past two decades. Along those lines; the efforts of civil society to understand and come to terms with the past have gathered momentum in twenty-first-century Spain. One visible outcome of this determination has been the recovery of corpses from unmarked graves, which has been accompanied by a renewed interest in the cultural, historical, legal and archaeological traces of the millions who suffered and under Franco's protracted dictatorship. This book sheds light especially on the, silent rotes played by women and children in the struggle against fascism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Memory, History and 'Historical Memory' of the Spanish Maquis 26

2 Francoism's Bandoleros (1954-1964) 43

3 From Apertura to Democracy (1970-1980) 74

4 Democratic Maquis (1987-2010) 109

5 Documenting 'Historical Memory' (1985-2008) 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230240551

0230240550

OCLC:

728656736