Month: May 2021

On Monday, our last day of classes, we watched our last film of the semester. The question for this blogpost, our tenth and last, is the core question for this semester, and one that informs our wrapping up the semester: how does Juan Carlos Medina’s film Painless (2012) encompass the correspondences of Spain, cinema, fascism,… Continue reading May 3. Wrapping up Spain, Cinema, Fascism, and Religiosity

This week in the semester we sought to understand the ways in which cinema deploys re-memberance, horror, and fantasy as strategies (not merely as plots or narratives) of survival of fascism. How did Spanish cinema and literature represent the survival of repression, persecution, prosecution, execution, life, and death in the multiple temporalities film can hold. … Continue reading 26-28 April. Re-membering fascism: survival, horror, fantasy, nationalism