Stošić, Sanja (2024) IDENTITARY SYMBOLS AND SPANISH CINEMATIC DISCOURSE – FROM FRANCOISM TO ALMODOVARIAN CINEMA. In: Film and Politics. Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, pp. 419-444. ISBN 978-86-7419-388-4

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This paper examines identitary symbols in the context of Spanish cinematic discourse. In the frame of Francoist and Almodóvarian cinema and from the deconstruc�tive and comparative approaches, this article argues that televisual narrative requires close reading in re�lation to the cultural and political context. Accordingly, each film as a mass medium, inherently transfers aes�thetic ethos as well as ideological message. To support this point, this paper will analyze the main features of the Francoist and Almodóvarian cinema. Likewise, by comparing Spanish cinema during Francoist era with the changing cinematographic politics of the Transi�tion period (la transición), this article will reveal that the political shift also enabled a cultural and sociolog�ical shift which was reflected in the birth of new cine�matographic topics and consequently Almodóvar’s new representations of Spanish identity, as well as gender identities. For this reason, identifying and understanding identitarian symbols of Spanish film discourse from the Francoist dictatorship era to a newly established dem�ocratic state not only outlines the social, cultural and political evolution of Spain, but also proves pivotal for the interpretation of Almodóvarian unique cinematic expression and its impact on Spanish national identity.

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