Paul Julian Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781383247
- eISBN:
- 9781786944054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383247.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Part I, devoted to Spain, consists of four chapters on major topics and texts, broadcast by both public and private channels. Chapter 1 treats the genre of the mini-series as historical memory in two ...
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Part I, devoted to Spain, consists of four chapters on major topics and texts, broadcast by both public and private channels. Chapter 1 treats the genre of the mini-series as historical memory in two examples that blur the boundary between fact and fiction. After sketching out the still fraught debate over the heritage of dictatorship and transition to democracy, the chapter first focuses on a dramatization of an attempted military coup, which drew the largest audience in Spanish television history and marked the first time that the King had been depicted by an actor in the medium. The second case study is of a controversial biopic of the greatest singing star of the late Francoist period, who embodies the tensions of the transition.Less
Part I, devoted to Spain, consists of four chapters on major topics and texts, broadcast by both public and private channels. Chapter 1 treats the genre of the mini-series as historical memory in two examples that blur the boundary between fact and fiction. After sketching out the still fraught debate over the heritage of dictatorship and transition to democracy, the chapter first focuses on a dramatization of an attempted military coup, which drew the largest audience in Spanish television history and marked the first time that the King had been depicted by an actor in the medium. The second case study is of a controversial biopic of the greatest singing star of the late Francoist period, who embodies the tensions of the transition.
Paul Julian Smith
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781383247
- eISBN:
- 9781786944054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383247.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Chapter 3 begins with a survey of the youth genre in Spain, a topic little studied in comparison with the US. It goes on to suggest that two titles, once more the object of bitter attack from Spanish ...
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Chapter 3 begins with a survey of the youth genre in Spain, a topic little studied in comparison with the US. It goes on to suggest that two titles, once more the object of bitter attack from Spanish critics and politicians, stage an unexpected working through of vital social issues for their youthful audiences. Thus one mystery narrative mounts an elaborate allegory of the historical memory debate, even obliquely alluding to the controversy over the excavation of mass graves of war victims. Another high school drama, hitherto held to be exploitative and even responsible for teen riots, explores youthful homosexuality and immigration in ways that clearly qualify as ethically serious, as well as politically progressiveLess
Chapter 3 begins with a survey of the youth genre in Spain, a topic little studied in comparison with the US. It goes on to suggest that two titles, once more the object of bitter attack from Spanish critics and politicians, stage an unexpected working through of vital social issues for their youthful audiences. Thus one mystery narrative mounts an elaborate allegory of the historical memory debate, even obliquely alluding to the controversy over the excavation of mass graves of war victims. Another high school drama, hitherto held to be exploitative and even responsible for teen riots, explores youthful homosexuality and immigration in ways that clearly qualify as ethically serious, as well as politically progressive
