KEN LOACH'S LAND AND and FREEDOM (1994): CONFLICTS AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING SPANISH CINEMATOGRAPHIC MEMORIES - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Cine y. Journal of interdisciplinary studies on Film in Spanish Année : 2014

KEN LOACH'S LAND AND and FREEDOM (1994): CONFLICTS AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING SPANISH CINEMATOGRAPHIC MEMORIES

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The present essay analyses the concept of Spanish national cinematographic memory by examining a transnational film, Land and Freedom, by Ken Loach. With this film, the British film director critiqued the influence of Stalin on the Spanish Civil War. As this fictionalised film was located in Spain itself, and referred directly to some historical facts, it was strongly criticised in the country. El País published several reactions: for example, from the former leader of the Communist Party, Santiago de Carrillo, and from Wilebaldo Solano, former member of the POUM. This debate demonstrated a need to reconstruct the 'truth' about this period. The highly provocative and direct message of Loach's film on a sensitive point of Spanish history contrasts completely with the general tendency of Spanish film directors in the 1990’s, who created discourses of consensus in their images. I will therefore work through the concept of national memory. How do reactions to a transnational film in a national context show us the mechanics of cultural restrictions? Can we define this in relation to the interaction between institutions, politics, and film-making in the 1990’s in Spain? And is it possible to speak of a typical national cinematographic memory? I will examine these issues by first situating Loach's film in the context of Spanish cinematographic memory, concentrating on the representation of the International Brigades in fiction films of the 1990’s. They are transnational figures in this civil conflict. Also analysed will be some theoretical approaches to national and transnational memory. Finally, in order to give a concrete example, I will conclude by commenting on the debate in El País about historical truth and this transnational film.
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Pietsie Feenstra. KEN LOACH'S LAND AND and FREEDOM (1994): CONFLICTS AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING SPANISH CINEMATOGRAPHIC MEMORIES. Cine y. Journal of interdisciplinary studies on Film in Spanish, 2014. ⟨hal-04454374⟩
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