H. Rosi Song
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781382875
- eISBN:
- 9781781383988
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382875.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book examines how the political period in Spain following Franco's death, known as the Transición, is being remembered by a group of writers, filmmakers and TV producers born in the sixties and ...
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This book examines how the political period in Spain following Franco's death, known as the Transición, is being remembered by a group of writers, filmmakers and TV producers born in the sixties and early seventies. Reading against the dominant historical account that celebrates Spain’s successful democratisation, this study reveals how recent television, film and fiction recreate this past from a generational perspective, linking the experience of the Transición to the country’s present political and financial crises. Privileging above all an emotional connection, these artists use personal feelings about the past to analyse and revisit the history of their coming-of-age years. Lost in Transition considers the implications of adopting such a subjective positioning towards history that encourages an unending narrative, always in search of more meaningful and intimate connections with the past. Taking into account recent theoretical approaches to memory studies, this book proposes a new look at the production of memory in contemporary Spain and its close relationship to popular culture, shifting the focus from what is remembered to how the past is recalled and made part of the everyday experience.Less
This book examines how the political period in Spain following Franco's death, known as the Transición, is being remembered by a group of writers, filmmakers and TV producers born in the sixties and early seventies. Reading against the dominant historical account that celebrates Spain’s successful democratisation, this study reveals how recent television, film and fiction recreate this past from a generational perspective, linking the experience of the Transición to the country’s present political and financial crises. Privileging above all an emotional connection, these artists use personal feelings about the past to analyse and revisit the history of their coming-of-age years. Lost in Transition considers the implications of adopting such a subjective positioning towards history that encourages an unending narrative, always in search of more meaningful and intimate connections with the past. Taking into account recent theoretical approaches to memory studies, this book proposes a new look at the production of memory in contemporary Spain and its close relationship to popular culture, shifting the focus from what is remembered to how the past is recalled and made part of the everyday experience.
David Vilaseca
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314674
- eISBN:
- 9781846316180
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316180
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book studies texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, ...
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This book studies texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who could be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig; controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardin; and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquin Jordà, members of the short-lived movement known as ‘the Barcelona School’. Drawing on some of the most influential theorists and philosophers of our time, the book argues for a radical re-reading of a complex period in Spanish history, which is characterized by amnesia in relation to a painful past and ideological conflict within an unsettling present. It argues that the Transition emerges as the great ‘evental site’ of modern Spain, from which radically new ways of thinking can still emerge.Less
This book studies texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who could be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig; controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardin; and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquin Jordà, members of the short-lived movement known as ‘the Barcelona School’. Drawing on some of the most influential theorists and philosophers of our time, the book argues for a radical re-reading of a complex period in Spanish history, which is characterized by amnesia in relation to a painful past and ideological conflict within an unsettling present. It argues that the Transition emerges as the great ‘evental site’ of modern Spain, from which radically new ways of thinking can still emerge.
H. Rosi Song
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781382875
- eISBN:
- 9781781383988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382875.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
A quick introduction into the cultural and historical moment that is currently examining the years of Spain’s transformation into a democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The book ...
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A quick introduction into the cultural and historical moment that is currently examining the years of Spain’s transformation into a democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The book traces the disenchantment that followed the Transición and why the country’s recent financial crisis can be read as part of this continued political disappointment.Less
A quick introduction into the cultural and historical moment that is currently examining the years of Spain’s transformation into a democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The book traces the disenchantment that followed the Transición and why the country’s recent financial crisis can be read as part of this continued political disappointment.
