Following the recent appearance of films and television documentaries that delve into the subject of the Spanish Civil War, this article examines the status that audiovisual documentaries are acquiring as shapers of collective memory. In addition, it points out the risks and perversions of a massaudience audiovisual production that sets out to convey oral testimony as a source of veracity and visual documentary as an emotional catalyst. At a time such as the present, when so many channels of information are available (internet, television, radio, press, cinema, etc.) the role of the media in formulating the image of the past is in danger of becoming a crystallizing mechanism for the imagery of the Civil War and Franco’s abstract regime, and requires consideration from an ethical viewpoint.
© 2001-2024 Fundación Dialnet · Todos los derechos reservados