Screening history: television, memory, and the nostalgia of national community in Cuéntame and Temps de silenci

• Santana, Mario ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Chicago

     University of Chicago

     City of Chicago, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, ISSN-e 1469-9524, ISSN 1470-1847, Vol. 21, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 147-164
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Fictional narratives devoted to the recent past have become increasingly popular in the last two decades, not only in the field of literary production but also – and perhaps more surprisingly – on television. Series like Temps de silenci (Televisió de Catalunya, 2001–2002) and Cuéntame (Televisión Española, since 2001) have proved that there is a significant audience for the recovery and transmission of stories associated with the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition to democracy. This essay explores the interest in historical memory and analyzes some of the prominent features of those two television series, and argues that the allure of the past in contemporary Spanish culture is linked to the crisis of national identities (in both Catalonia and Spain) and expresses a nostalgia for forms and experiences of political community, imagined as grounded on models of kinship and family.