La evocación frustrada de la Guerra Civil: crítica cinematográfica y recuerdo en "Primer Plano" y "Radiocinema" ,1939-1943

• Autores: Jorge Juan Nieto Ferrando
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 56, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: De la vanguardia al realismo: poéticas de pasaje; Carlos Serrano de Osma: la alternativa telúrica), págs. 172-200
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Frustrated evocation of the Spanish Civil War: film critique and memories in Primer Plano and Radiocinema,1939-1943
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  • This article examines Primer Plano and Radiocinema, two journals of the early 1940s, which called for films that would keep the collective memory of the Spanish Civil War alive. Critics defended these so-called “crusade films” for having the “potential of fiction” which, with the appropriation of genre formulas, especially the melodramatic love story, could make the heroic lessons more “effective/affective.” Equally interesting are the connections we find between certain war films and what actually happened during the most epic moments in Spanish history.

    These films would foreshadow how, from 1943 on, the dominant film industry would eventually direct its vision to the past.