Month: February 2021

This week we sought to understand the corresponding ways in which nostalgia, autarky, and historical memory were deployed during the first decade of Francos’ fascist regime, and how these were represented by virtue of a national-transnational experiment on cinematic pastiche. The 50s showed an increasing interest on various dimensions of national / transnational referentiality (cultural,… Continue reading 22-24 Febr. Borders of Belief: National, Transnational

In this short week, we sought to understand the advent of fascism as an emblem of a historical lockdown, and how music and religion played a role in this moment of reconfiguration of historical memory. The advent of fascism in Spain during the second half of the 30s became an emblem of a historical lockdown,… Continue reading 15 Feb. War and Music, Rituals of Life and Death

This week we have discussed how the advent of sound and the emergence of Surrealism played a critical role in the development of the Second Republic, and viceversa.  We considered how audiovisual representation of violence is intrinsically related to much of the history of filmmaking in Spain during the 20th century.  Write a paragraph in… Continue reading 8-10 Febr. Violence Sights. Surrealism, Sound, and the Second Republic