El Documental Cinematográfico Y Televisivo Contemporáneo: Memoria, Sujeto Y Formación de la Identidad Democrática Española [Spanish]

Este libro eval?a la aportaci?n del documental cinematogr?fico y televisivo producido en Espa?a a partir de los a?os 90 al debate en torno a la memoria de la represi?n franquista.

This book examines how a selected grof 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.

Este libro eval?a la aportaci?n del documental cinematogr?fico y televisivo producido en Espa?a a partir de los a?os 90 al debate en torno a la memoria de la represi?n franquista, por un lado, as? como a la construcci?n de la identidad democr?tica, en t?rminos m?s generales. Propongo que tanto los documentales con un enfoque hist?rico expl?cito como aquellos cuya mirada retrospectiva se realiza sin referentes tan concretos cuestionan el proyecto pol?tico teleol?gico concebido durante la Transici?n. La primera parte de mi estudio trata de la memoria hist?rica de la guerra civil espec?ficamente y, la segunda, de la memoria en un sentido socioecon?mico para apuntar el d?ficit de agencia del sujeto en la democracia neoliberal. En ?ltima instancia se reivindica la marginalidad social de la v?ctima a la vez que se deja al descubierto su obliteraci?n de los procesos democr?ticos.

Isabel M. Estrada is Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College.

ENGLISH VERSION

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.