Catalan television documentaries and the Works of Dolors Genovès: the negotiations of memory in democratic Spain

• Autores: Isabel Estrada
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Cluster: Studies in Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture in Honor of David J. Viera), págs. 117-130
• Idioma: catalán
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  • This paper analyzes the ways in which recent Catalan television documentaries, particularly those directed by Dolors Genovés and the team of Montse Ar-mengou and Ricard Belis for TV3, depict Spain's traumatic past and participate in public debates about memory. I argue that Armengou and Belis's docu-mentaries attempt to construct a totalizing and coherent historical narrative whjle manipulating the spectators' emotions in order to further political agendas that depict the debate as only two-sided. Genovès's documentaries, on the other hand, effectively eschew Manichean discourse and distinguish themselves by illustrating a process through which history is constructed by the reappearance and recurrence of the traumatic event and the diffjculty of comprehending it.