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Democrazy in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life (1968-2008)

Democrazy in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life (1968-2008)

Estrada, Isabel M.

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, Book 37

Film StudiesSpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1835536891
ISBN13: 9781835536896
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Nov 1 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.

The 2008 financial crisis prompted the most significant social protests since 1968 in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. These protests generated not only social reform but also collaborative and affective affiliations, often seen through artistic and cultural materials. Taking Spain as a focal point, this book examines film production at both points in time, showing how it emerges from simultaneously divergent and comparable economic and political milieux. The book aims to recognize and celebrate the political responsibility exercised and expressed by a new generation of Spaniards deeply immersed in those protests. Through the convergences of two markedly significant periods in two separate centuries, filmmakers expose the deficiencies of Spain's democracy in 2008--the D MOCRAZY in the title, a slogan seen on a banner carried by the protesters--while creating a new sensibility and forms of social life that bring back the notions of community and the common good that had been forgotten in the midst of such a brittle environment.

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