Title: El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneo : memoria, sujeto y formación de la identidad democrática española /
Authors: Estrada, Isabel M.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Documentary films Political aspects Spain.; Documentary films Social aspects Spain.; Documentary films Spain History and criticism.; Documentary television programs Political aspects Spain.; Documentary television programs Social aspects Spain.; Documentary television programs Spain History and criticism.; Memory in motion pictures.; History in motion pictures.; Politics in motion pictures.; Collective memory Spain.; Nationalism and collective memory Spain.; Spain In motion pictures.; Spain History; Spain History
Abstract: This book examines how a selected group of documentaries made since 1995 for both film and television inform the debate centered on the so-called "recuperation of memory" of the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship. Estrada contends that these documentaries modify Spanish identity as it was conceived by the teleological historical project of the transition. The narrative of mass media should be examined in order to comprehend the process of the "recovery of memory" that culminated in the 'Law of Historical Memory' (2007). She carries out a comparative analysis of the visual discourse of the documentary and the narrative discourses of history and testimony, paying special attention to the relations of power among them. Using theoretical frameworks provided by Badiou, Adorno, Renov, and Ricoeur, this study ultimately sheds light on the status of the victim in the context of Spain's neoliberal democracy. Isabel M. Estrada is Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College.
Contents: Introducción -- Reivindicación de las víctimas y epistemología en Les fosses del silencia (2003) y Las fosas del olvido (2004) -- El viaje inquisidor hacia el pasado : reivindicación y poesía en Muerte en El Valle (1996), de Christina Marie Hardt -- Documentalistas, historiadores, víctimas : la voz femenina en Aguaviva (1996), Esperanza Martínez (2006) y Mujeres en pie de guerra (2006) -- Jugando con la memoria : El grito del sur: casas viejas (1995), de Basilio Martín Patino -- La vieja memoria (1978), de Jaime Camino: ¿existe una memoria nueva? -- Otro viaje inquisidor hacia el pasado : El cielo gira (2005), de Mercedes Álvarez -- Residuos y memoria en el palimpsesto urbano del siglo XXI : En construcción, de José Luis Guerín (2001) -- Topografía de la transmisión : la celebración de la memoria y el individuo en Vint anys no és res (2004), de Joaquim Jordà, y La leyenda del tiempo (2006), de Isaki Lacuesta -- Conclusiones.